Das Werdende - The Becoming

It is beginning to happen. I am noticing a slow shift away from the silly and pointless high school avowals that:

• studying is for nerds
  
• we are here just to get the degree and get out
• we don't care
• we do not think about who and what we are

I am starting to notice an interest, a tentative probing by my first-year students at the world around them, and some very positive acts that may corroborate my observation.

This is incipient reflection, a discovery that "what I think may actually have value or consequence."

I think of the process as digital constructivism, a nascent inquiry into self that opens the first of so many other doors to so many other questions.

I hope I am right.