I haven’t said this yet, but @RoamHacker, #roam42 [[SmartBlocks]] are the first step in a lot of what we have been talking about for months - a true [[central source of truth]] data repository in @RoamResearch which to link all our PKM arenas.

When the API comes out, I expect great things from you 😁. I know you do this for the love of it. Respect. But you are also changing peoples lives in subtle ways. I have spent the last decade teaching people to “learn how to learn”.

To encourage the unknowing, the unwilling, and the passionate to find themselves and discover joy in thinking. We all have our [[calling]]. You have allowed me to better engage in my own work - engage in my own thinking - and frankly being a better human.

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Mark Robertson

@calhistorian

24 Sep

@AGWilsonn

@AGWilsonn - Ok. Again, for full context and an understanding of priors. I teach at a [[community college]], so students more likely: marginalized, unprepared, unconnected, and juggling the major stresses in their community.

https://twitter.com/agwilsonn/status/1308935070150000648

I teach in one city in the California Bay Area, and another in the Central Valley of California. Both are majority “minority” student body. One a gentrified city, the other gentrified farm community (like any place in the US isn’t gentrified?!)

The most important [[pedagogical goals]] I have is helping students become “[[true student]],” as opposed to “fee paying individuals.” With that said, the goals wouldn’t be much different elsewhere.

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Mark Robertson

@calhistorian

23 Sep

@cortexfutura

@cortexfutura I saw you retweeted some colorized photos. And I agree with the OPs comments. It is a shift in mindset that I use in my history classes all the time. In particular, for American history, the “Civil War” was only 150 yrs ago. that is only really 3-4 generations

Or 2-3 lifetimes. And in fact. The last “Confederate" widow (the opposition to the government) died in the 90s or 2000s (Granted she married a very old man when she was very young). But the colorized pictures bring so much more to the mind.

Its actually very creepy for me, since I have a deep historical memory.

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Mark Robertson

@calhistorian

23 Sep

@roamresearch

Let’s be real #roamcult, we’re not just here for the product (@roamresearch), but here for the party too! Learned so much from all of you. Regardless of context, a [[community of inquiry]] ([[pragmatists]], [[C.S.Peirce]] and [[John Dewey]]) will always find truths together.

So rewarding.

The dialogue, debate, conflict, studies, and explorations will always lead to progress.

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Mark Robertson

@calhistorian

21 Sep

https://twitter.com/calhistorian/status/1307821414385201152

You know what I think most people don’t realize, is that historians job is to argue. We tell stories, true,. But the stories themselves are implicit arguments against or in support of the prior generation.

https://twitter.com/calhistorian/status/1307821414385201152

We argue about what matters in the present, through the lens of the past. We argue about what past perspectives, stories, and avenues of thought are most relevant to get the most out of the present and future.

History will never be written because it is not the past. It is our view of the past. Our perspective. It will always change. It will aldehyde shift with the current generation. Aggregation of facts, yes, will build. But interpretations will never solidify.

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