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Happy Sunday from Chula Vista! I am at school working on chopping away at the endless list of “To Do’s’”. Yesterday I went to Torrey Pines to do a little hiking and get some sun. It was a great day. The sun was out as it had not been much this week.

I am thinking a lot about the role education plays within society these days. I have been thinking a lot about how we live in a world that is fortified with mass communication and asking myself, if I was John Dewey or Paulo Friere, Thoreau, Myles Horton – heck even Paul Revere and had access to the technology of today would the innovations they had made within their cultures be different? Changed? More effective? What I do see when I look at the world around me is bountiful shades of Hope for the future.

We have already expounded upon the leaps in communication that Gutenberg started with the Printing Press and now it is the job of current educators and social revolutionaries to use these tools for more than just that of advertisement and economic growth, we now need to use these tools to access, or even facilitate, the realm of spiritual growth.

The human spirit can, and already does, work in conjunction with modern technology. Look for any song on Youtube and you will find another video of a fan who has just spent hours learning to play this song just so he could video tape it and expose his successes to the communities all over the world. This is the power education and exhibition happening in the most simplistic forms and it has access to a community that a classroom may never have. This is the real world.

My biggest concern in the way things are going is how are we, in Peter London’s words: “Drawing Closer to Nature”. Technology must facilitate the human experience and to do so it must allow us to be connected to all realms, even that of the flower in the middle of the forest. I am excited at the leaps forward in Cellular technology and its merge with mobile computing. We are going to be there quicker than people realize.