ambition & probability
Technology is a vehicle. Forward. Forward. The car is moving Fast. Elements in passing are a blur. The steer’s been wrangled and strapped to the grill—a fresh wrack a lamb of sorts to keep us on our journey. All signals move Forward Along the Spine of time—direction is pre-determined. Autonomy is an Illusion.
Landi Cruz
Mon 1st Apr 2024 18:44
One of my favorite activities with my students is to use a random word generator in a creative writing exercise.
They can push the "generate" button as many times as they'd like to come up with six words to use in any form--anything from a free-writing exercise, to poetry or prose, to a short narrative piece. The only catch is that it's timed.
I tell them that I would love for them to share, but won't push, and they respond beautifully. If they get the idea that it's meant to make them limber and not measured, they come forth with their ideas. Simple.
The idea is to get them to disassociate from rules and to emotionally connect to the language to express their own raw ideas. There is no good or bad and there are no passes or fails.