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Every stop is a story - Darwin to Adelaide River

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  Every stop is a story - Darwin to Adelaide River The Adelaide River Rupture (image to be uploaded - subscribe to be notified) The storm did not break over the Adelaide River plains; rather, reality tore open along the track. To the left, the familiar Top End landscape clung fiercely to its quiet melancholy. A lone gum tree stood sentinel over the charred scrub and dry earth, its leaves catching the last bruised light of a brooding wet-season sky. In the hollow below, the old fictional homestead crouched beside the rutted dirt road, enduring the heavy stillness that always settles before the atmosphere ruptures. Then came the tear. It began not with thunder, but with an overwhelming, luminous heat that shredded the grey overcast into molten ribbons. You could feel the vortex of raw energy sweeping through radiant ambers, searing cadmium oranges, and blinding celestial whites. The vortex descended like a folded dimension brushing against the earth. Where the atmospheric rift touch...
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Godin Wonder Cosmos Text

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Godin Wonder what do we want the machine to see? do we want the machine to see god? god in our hands god in our hearts god in our minds god in our actions god in our love Godin Cosmos Out there is discovery In here is discovery Whether it be micro or macro the same situation draws us from under cover Hear the call,  in urgency and haste The speed ever increasing and yet all differences seem to coverage The reason being forward and the answer being past If we continue to observe we shall delude ourselves by the sheer cunning of our ingenuity If we fall into the grace of mystery we shall delude ourselves by the sheer stupidity of our godliness It whispers in our ear Imagine it and it will exist Godin Text Fear within the night air Come into the darkness Way underground way out there Dig and scratch, scratch and dig No sensors undefinable darkness Without sight Without sound Without touch Without scent Without taste Without sense, without bod...
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Behavioural Change and Improved Learning

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(This discussion paper is contextual to Australian schools.) The relationship between behavioral change and improved learning is a deeply rooted process of schooling. As structures go, classrooms contain a largely sized body of people within smallish size rooms, students are legislated to compulsory attend, and are regulated by the powers of a solitary instructor/manager.  For an individual child to successfully learn in this controlled space classroom behavior must be acquired. The child learns this behavior in the classroom itself. Classroom behaviour is a learning discipline in itself. It is difficult for a child to learn within a classroom if the child doesn’t subscribe to classroom rules. Schools are ‘disciplinary institutions’.   Australian schooling is  similar to the descriptions formed by Foucault.  In reference to Foucault  this discussion concerns the relationship between power, knowledge and future social positioning.  This discussion i...
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