Digital Heart

Why is this blog named Digital Heart? 

“What is done is done for the love of it – or not really done at all.” – Robert Frost

This I believe.  Also, consider these additional quotations: 

“… in standardized reform teachers are treated and developed not as high-skill, high-capacity knowledge workers, but as compliant and closely monitored producers of standardized performances.”  – Andy Hargreaves, Teaching in the Knowledge Society

“To put it simply: in addition to a brain, we have a heart – and we want to put it to use in promoting young people’s learning.  Exclude this vital organ from our work, and you get compliance at best.  What is needed is an invitation to practitioners to bring a spirit of creativity and invention into the school house.  What is needed is a sense of heart.” – Roland Barth, Learning by Heart

“Your work is to discover your work – and to give your heart to it.”   -Buddha

I believe that educators who write must remind themselves and others WHY we became educators in the first place.  In our rush to reform and rethink our education institutions, we need to remember children and caring and the joy of learning.  Let’s discover our work AND give our hearts to it!