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It was never easy to put the jigsaw puzzle of our education into a clear picture. The courses, the tasks, the projects, the disciplines, the instructors: the closest we'd come to wholeness was more like feeling a center of gravity than seeing all the pieces come together. Add the infinite stream of information accelerated by technology and even a center of gravity can be hard to find. I like to support the cognitive, social, and educational resources that provide a scaffolding for us to more deeply consider our centers of gravity as they shift in response to all the information coming at us. These centers of gravity include a sense of self, a purpose, a mission, and an impact. Impacts can be disciplinary or interdisciplinary, personal, professional, or in community. Given the prominence of technology that interrupts our most natural inclinations to return to some center, this consideration of what is even there is as important as ever.

You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things so that all the small things go in the right direction. - Alvin Toffler

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