Digital Aristotle

I've been thinking about education and how to improve my teaching for quite a while. This idea of a 'Digital Aristotle' is interesting not because of its novelty, but because of its simplicity. I agree that traditional education methods are outdated and need to evolve to our ever-growing technological society. Although, I'm a little skeptical about sticking children in front of computers; age is naturally a limiting factor for how useful the Internet is to a particular user. We also see in adults that mental agility is a limit. I waste a lot of time on my computer. Games and movies plague my hard drive. A lot of the time I spend an hour or two Googling something only to remain scratching my head. I think being able to harness the Internet as a learning tool takes a lot of finesse to master and isn't as intuitive as it may seem.

A Positive Reflection

Episode 1: "The Expat Life" from Semipermanent on Vimeo.


I think this video really hits home on my experience of living in Seoul this year (outside of work). Seoul is a daunting place at first, but remarkable once you become familiar with it. It amazes me how much I've actually adapted to living here -- I've become quite familiar with it not only geographically, but also culturally and socially. I would say Seoul/Korea is a second home for me in the sense that it's no longer this big, mysterious place with all these confusing details. Would I want to live here for the rest of my life? Probably not. But it will always be a place that I come back to.