Visiting Father’s Day
A waning spring day /
To visit with my father /
As the years pass by. Continue Reading →
Author: David Wright Gibson
David has spent many years gradually building some understanding of human history. He continues to be fascinated by the way our species works together to create and destroy, to birth and to kill, to love and to hate. He has a particular fondness for the history of the British Isles, and a strong interest in deepening his understanding of European history.
Baking Bread
As spring rolls indoors, /
The new kitchen is in play /
Gold crust and firm crumb. Continue Reading →
Spring Movements
As spring moves forward /
This beauty gives us solace. /
There is only hope. Continue Reading →
Surveillance Capitalism and Education
This question of providing value in exchange for adjustments in that variable term privacy is central to the challenges and changes facing society and subsequently, higher education. We are seeing a deep shift that is variously termed the Digital Wealth System (Toffler/Toffler), the Second Machine Age (Brynjolfsson/McAfee), or the Fourth Industrial Revolution(Schwab). Continue Reading →
Puppy Snuggles
While working today /
Favorite bed was chosen /
With autumn snuggles. Continue Reading →
Sunrise Prague
Sleep is elusive /
But dawn offers up hope, light /
And autumn glory. Continue Reading →
First Roads Lead to Rome
As a green young seminarian, I had the good fortune to be allowed to join my classmates in the University of Dallas tradition of having the sophomore class spend one semester at the UD Rome campus. It is a semester that is organized for travel. While we had to carry a full fifteen credit hour load, the term was skewed in organization such that we banked extra class time at the beginning and four-day weekends at the end. Continue Reading →
Education Transformation Takes Time
This is an important observation about education and educational reform. It involves many people. Both many people to develop new methods and tools, and many people to implement and integrate these ideas to move education institutions to better meet our needs. Continue Reading →
Sapiens by Harari
There is much of merit throughout the book, and much that may be subject to debate, but for me, the most significant idea he presents is that of the cognitive revolution. Continue Reading →
Artificial Intelligence, Data, and Education
It is about scale. In education, we have always wanted to take care that every learner in our charge reaches their full potential. …This need for scale to succeed in the digital wealth system is one that will drive investment. This is where we will being to see deep value in education that matches the aspirations of educators of the industrial revolution. Continue Reading →