Do we want a bunch of credulous students? No, it is harmful!

I analogize this word and the following blocked quote with something I call the beautiful ugly. Ugly because necrotizing conjures awful, frightening images. There is beauty in the blocked off paragraph because there is inherent truth! Who wants an educational system where there is no synthesis, just a propagation of stale, "dead" ideas, untested by teachers and students?

crucial words, crucial IMAGE

This is the basis of creation: first respect, then trust!

very provocative manner of expressing patriarchal hierarchies.

And isn't this truly what the goal of transformation is about? To be perfectlly honest?

Just as pearl emerges from sand irritating the inside of an oyster. Nacre slowly builds.

vessels! such an apt analogy!

formulaic, non-generative thinking

This will lead to students feeling alienated, reality is not fixed.

Say it ain't so. Book reading is considered frivolous. I shall fall on my sword.

This is really something! I think we learn a lot by interactive learning and doing things together. It raises the bar for the digital public commons!

I saw the video re: this. So great! It was so creative & thought-provoking. Linking the digital to the analogue is a great way for us to bridge our knowledge about both & interact with both simultaneously. Using your phone with the card catalogue is just brilliant and the visual representation really keeps you thinking and fully engaged. The red threads!

Can't an counter-argument at least be tentatively be posited that by jumping from hyperlink to hyperlink a writer would lose his/her focus in his/her writing assignment.

At this point, I am not quibbling with this theory; however, the authors are not making it clear what "hypertext writing" physically entails. Is it a matter of inserting links or writing code? The authors say a lot about the hierarchical nature of hypertext writing & how it may be beneficial but I need to know WHAT they mean. Research should define its terms upfront even if that is in a footnote.

This goes to my point below. If it is a "complex practice" how can it be learned by the students in 20 min?

What does this really mean? Are all the argumentative pieces going to be coded in HTML format? I don't think that's possible. If the HTML text is embedded into a Word doc, how much free (uncoded) text will be included? I also have serious questions about how learning HTML coding can be done in a short lesson, 20 minutes?

The authors aren't defining their term. I know that they mean a document that is going to contain hyperlinks, but will the students be coding using HTML?

Does the computer hear us as we talk in our sleep??? https://youtu.be/JmGMzyajA2U

Civic engagement is key. It is important educate young people on different viewpoints & encourage them to explore further on their own. This concept of civic engagement is important because it empowers young people -- they have a stake!

Well said. Many people are hashtag-consumed and then fail to take a deeper dive into the experiences of the live people that are behind that hashtag. Again, empathy is key!

Excellent point. I would add that gaining empathy cannot be dropped to the side as soon as we encounter a belief that is contrary to our own. Everyone is entitled to their opinions and we should try to empathize with them and not reject them wholesale because such opinions are unpopular. I see a lot of unnecessary improper netiquette on Twitter and it disheartens me at times.

As an American, I have seen many of us take freedom of expression for granted; there is no doubt, that people in restrictive regimes can be punished (without our even knowing about it) for their opinions.

This is essential. Many do not involve themselves with the situational realities of the "other" until they themselves become "other"

Paulo Freire's theory on oppression is solid and extremely important. However, it becomes untenable for me when it traverses into the territory of espousing Marxism, which I do not view as a viable method of organizing government.

I think skepticism is necessary because it is important that we examine both sides of a given proposition or government structure. However, it is only a first step.

Mounzer mimics the paragraph above, where she described her reader. Now she is doing the same things. She is both a narrator and a participant.

Amazing how lives can be fit into tiny spaces. Mounzer uses such a stark juxtaposition of images and this makes the reader sit up and pay attention.

An important image, language being used as a barrier against pain.

It is as if she is bearing witness to the events by translating them. That is extremely powerful.

The juxtaposition of these 2 disparate things: exhausted and joyful is very powerful. He can find some respite in that he has gotten his child to a place where her small body can be perhaps be helped. He has battled the crumbling world around him to fight for his child.

This is a physical, muscular way of describing language that is very effective. The writer's own voice is a tool being used to combat destruction. Voice becomes tangible and imbued with power.