Let’s Keep Talking!
Nov 27th, 2012 by Michele Brannon-Hamilton
Social media and innovation were topics I expected to learn about at the Desire2Learn Mobilize event this week – oceans and steam engines not so much. Yet, talking took us to all of these places and my mind was filled with the awe of our changing world.
I found myself in a place of like-minded people where age didn’t matter. All that mattered was that we were talking and listening and imagining. I took 16 double-sided pages of notes over the course of 10 hours. I could have flown to England in that time and typing my notes would have been more efficient but I was compelled to stay and write. I didn’t want to miss a thing.
I had just spent 2 years studying educational technology at UBC so it wasn’t that the material was new to me. It was the conversation that inspired me. It was finding people who think like I think and finding so many of them together in one place. Passionate people inspire passion in other people. This was a place where “what if” was possible.
It’s only when we stop talking that we become stuck. We create gaps between the ages and lose sight of where we are going. I believe I was in a place filled with visionaries, people who can see connections where others see confusion – people like me. It was like our own Hogwarts School, a place where there are no boundaries, where age is invisible, and where the unimaginable is possible.
Now that I’ve found this inspirational place, I don’t want the conversation to end. I have too much to say and you have so much to teach me. So let’s keep talking!
Michele
