{"id":1811,"date":"2020-04-03T11:56:13","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T18:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theamericancrawl.com\/?p=1811"},"modified":"2020-04-03T12:00:29","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T19:00:29","slug":"1811","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theamericancrawl.com\/?p=1811","title":{"rendered":"Visualizing Tomorrow: Looking at Responses to the Speculative Education Colloquium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Two nights ago, 115 of you signed up to join us for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theamericancrawl.com\/?p=1797\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Speculative Education Colloquium<\/a>. (And we welcome more &#8211; please see info <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theamericancrawl.com\/?p=1797\">here<\/a> to register for the free event.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">As part of signing up, folks have the option of responding to the following prompt:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Screenshot 2020-04-02 02.05.45\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/anterobot\/49732140152\/in\/dateposted\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49732140152_7b4ed934a6_z.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshot 2020-04-02 02.05.45\" width=\"623\" height=\"183\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Most of you jotted a sentence or two. Some of you left it blank. Some of you went to town.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I took the responses from these first two days of inviting folks to this gathering and threw them in an old-school word-cloud. It looks like this:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"wordcloud (2)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/anterobot\/49732144527\/in\/dateposted\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49732144527_77e26bcb2f_z.jpg\" alt=\"wordcloud (2)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">While there are some pretty obvious\u2014if still exciting \u2014 words that pop out here, it\u2019s the language that creeps in the nooks and crannies <i>around<\/i> these bigger words that are revitalizing for me. (The Thomas\u2019 English Muffins of ideas, if you will.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Let\u2019s take a brief, zoomed-in tour of the cloud, shall we?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Community<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1817\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theamericancrawl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/49731268573_c1816fe4c2_o.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"911\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theamericancrawl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/49731268573_c1816fe4c2_o.png 911w, https:\/\/www.theamericancrawl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/49731268573_c1816fe4c2_o-300x64.png 300w, https:\/\/www.theamericancrawl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/49731268573_c1816fe4c2_o-768x163.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 911px) 100vw, 911px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I appreciate the words that sneak into the polysyllabic corners of &#8220;community&#8221; &#8211; ethics, arts, worlding, planet, rpgs. Those feel like words that can transform schooling practices.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Political One-Shot&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Screenshot 2020-04-02 02.08.38\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/anterobot\/49731815386\/in\/dateposted\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49731815386_b96470535f.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshot 2020-04-02 02.08.38\" width=\"500\" height=\"358\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>I appreciate the found poetry that is found in something like a word-cloud. If there is an aspect of &#8220;the algorithm&#8221;\u2122 that I like (a real maybe) it is its capacity for happenstance and previously unseen possibility. In general, this bottom left area of the cloud maps kinds of actions and adjectives that feel enticing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Partnerships!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1818\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theamericancrawl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/49732139077_71c028628a_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"638\" height=\"97\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theamericancrawl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/49732139077_71c028628a_z.jpg 638w, https:\/\/www.theamericancrawl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/49732139077_71c028628a_z-300x46.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 638px) 100vw, 638px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Partnership (and its permutations) sneaks throughout the cloud. We are wondering\u00a0<em>together<\/em> and while this event is academic-facing, the sense of\u00a0<em>with whom<\/em> lurks in many of these responses.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Might (Re-)Imagine<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Screenshot 2020-04-02 02.10.27\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/anterobot\/49731268533\/in\/dateposted\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49731268533_2ff233291f.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshot 2020-04-02 02.10.27\" width=\"499\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>By the time I got around to writing this post, a couple dozen more folks had signed up. This word cloud is out of date and we&#8217;ll share a newer version at the actual event. Like the world, our ideas are shifting, adapting, and moving quickly. I believe the original image of the cloud above is the high definition version; I encourage you to click around and explore the words and sentiments of these participants. Finally, if these are words that comport with the conversation you&#8217;d like to be a part of, join us!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1808\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theamericancrawl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/SEC-Flyer-1-1024x603.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"634\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theamericancrawl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/SEC-Flyer-1-1024x603.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.theamericancrawl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/SEC-Flyer-1-300x177.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.theamericancrawl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/SEC-Flyer-1-768x452.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Tell people this is awesome:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericancrawl.com\/?p=1811&amp;share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email this to a friend\"><span>Email<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-1811\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericancrawl.com\/?p=1811&amp;share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\"><span>Facebook<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-1811\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericancrawl.com\/?p=1811&amp;share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\"><span>Twitter<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-print\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-print sd-button share-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericancrawl.com\/?p=1811\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to print\"><span>Print<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-pinterest\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-pinterest-1811\" class=\"share-pinterest sd-button share-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericancrawl.com\/?p=1811&amp;share=pinterest\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Pinterest\"><span>Pinterest<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-tumblr\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-tumblr sd-button share-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericancrawl.com\/?p=1811&amp;share=tumblr\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Tumblr\"><span>Tumblr<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-reddit\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-reddit sd-button share-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericancrawl.com\/?p=1811&amp;share=reddit\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Reddit\"><span>Reddit<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-linkedin\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-linkedin-1811\" class=\"share-linkedin sd-button share-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericancrawl.com\/?p=1811&amp;share=linkedin\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on LinkedIn\"><span>LinkedIn<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-pocket\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-pocket sd-button share-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericancrawl.com\/?p=1811&amp;share=pocket\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Pocket\"><span>Pocket<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two nights ago, 115 of you signed up to join us for the Speculative Education Colloquium. (And we welcome more &#8211; please see info here to register for the free event.) As part of signing up, folks have the option of responding to the following prompt: Most of you jotted a sentence or two. Some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Tell people this is awesome:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericancrawl.com\/?p=1811&amp;share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email this to a friend\"><span>Email<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-1811\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericancrawl.com\/?p=1811&amp;share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\"><span>Facebook<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-1811\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericancrawl.com\/?p=1811&amp;share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\"><span>Twitter<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-print\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-print sd-button share-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericancrawl.com\/?p=1811\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to print\"><span>Print<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-pinterest\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-pinterest-1811\" class=\"share-pinterest sd-button share-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericancrawl.com\/?p=1811&amp;share=pinterest\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Pinterest\"><span>Pinterest<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-tumblr\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-tumblr sd-button share-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericancrawl.com\/?p=1811&amp;share=tumblr\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Tumblr\"><span>Tumblr<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-reddit\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-reddit sd-button share-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericancrawl.com\/?p=1811&amp;share=reddit\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Reddit\"><span>Reddit<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-linkedin\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-linkedin-1811\" class=\"share-linkedin sd-button share-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericancrawl.com\/?p=1811&amp;share=linkedin\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on LinkedIn\"><span>LinkedIn<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-pocket\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-pocket sd-button share-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericancrawl.com\/?p=1811&amp;share=pocket\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Pocket\"><span>Pocket<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/se04s-1811","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theamericancrawl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theamericancrawl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theamericancrawl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theamericancrawl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theamericancrawl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1811"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.theamericancrawl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1819,"href":"https:\/\/www.theamericancrawl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1811\/revisions\/1819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theamericancrawl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theamericancrawl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theamericancrawl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}