Here now

My children have difficulty grasping the nature of live television. The idea that you can´t just go back and find the bit you want to see, that you can´t pause it so that you don´t miss anything while you go and do something else is a foreign one.

The same idea is creeping into our teaching. Am I teaching, if my students aren´t sitting in front of me? Can I teach into the void, let whoever, whenever, pick up the thread when and as they want? Will my online participants who didn´t make it today find me later? Who will read these words and when?

What does this do to my concept of time, to my teaching relationships? Is an author or an artist who´s work touches people down the generations somehow in relationship with them?

Improvising, there is only this moment, once. As Lucia Walker once said to us: „this moment will not come again. Don´t miss it.“

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