Some of the best long form reading I have done of late has been on Medium including the Hans de Zwart one on Ai WeiWei  (and, apparently, on the entire universe of privacy).  I ran across another from my RSS feed this morning by Rob Walker, How To Pay Attention: 20 Ways To Win The War Against Seeing

I have ripped all 20 ways and bulleted them here for your consideration.  As we move from consumer to producer and from passive taker to active maker, I think they all bear translation into our lives as teachers and learners.  Every one of these is a touchstone to further thought and a manifesto to action.

Here are the ways to re-attend that Walker lists and discusses.  I really am using this as a way to get folks into this post.  There is so much more there.  These should just whet your tongue for the rest of the article.

• Conduct an overlooked-object scavenger hunt …
• a single-color scavenger hunt
• Spot something new every day
• Change Perspective
• Reframe the familiar
• Walk with an expert
• Talk to a stranger
• Let a stranger lead you
• Take a day-long walk through an unfamiliar part of town
• Poeticize the irritating
• Look slowly
• Look really, really slowly
• Look repeatedly
• Repeat your viewpoint
• Just Listen
• Soundmap
• Follow the quiet
• Look at anything besides your phone
• Misuse a Tech Tool
• Care for something

I will be returning to these bullet points all week by adding my own annotations to them using Diigo.  Here is the link to these ‘bonus tracks’ although now I am thinking of them more as  a ‘director’s commentary’:  https://diigo.com/078f8v  If you want to join in the active annotation of this post, just join Diigo and then join the public and open Diigo Group that will allow that sharing: https://groups.diigo.com/group/ccourses