Quotes About Engagement

Texting is more direct. You don't have to use conversation filler.

These days, students struggle with conversation. What makes sense is to engage them in it. The more you think about educational technology, with all its bells and whistles, the more you circle back to the simple power of conversation.

The new technologies allow us to "dial down" human contact, to titrate its nature and extent.

We miss out on necessary conversations when we divide our attention between the people we're with and the world on our phones. Or when we go to our phones instead of claiming a quiet moment for ourselves

We had talk enough, but no conversation. —SAMUEL JOHNSON, THE RAMBLER (1752)

Swaddle in our favorites, we missed out on what was in our peripheral vision.

Solitude reinforces a secure sense of self, and with that, the capacity for empathy. Then, conversation with others provides rich material for self-reflection. Just as alone we prepare to talk together, together we learn how to engage in a more productive solitude.

Who says that we always have to be ready to communicate?

It used to be that we imagined our mobile phones were there so that we could talk to each other. Now we want our mobile phones to talk to us.

For three decades, in describing people's relationships with computers, I have often used the metaphor of the Rorschach, the inkblot test that psychologists use as a screen onto which people can project their feelings and styles of thought. But as children interact with sociable robots like Furbies, they move beyond a psychology of projection to a new psychology of engagement. They try to deal with the robot as they would deal with a pet or a person.

You are interested in hearing about how another person approaches things—his or her opinions and associations.

Solitude reinforces a secure sense of self, and with that, the capacity for empathy. Then, conversation with others provides rich material for self-reflection. Just as alone we prepare to talk together, together we learn how to engage in

Children content with parents who are physically close, tantalizingly so, but mentally elsewhere.

But in creative conversations, in conversations in which people get to really know each other, you usually have to tolerate a bit of boredom.

What is a place if those who are physically present have their attention on the absent? At a café a block from my home, almost everyone is on a computer or smartphone as they drink their coffee. These people are not my friends, yet somehow I miss their presence.

So, instead of doing your email as you push your daughter in her stroller, talk to her. Instead of putting a digital tablet in your son's baby bouncer, read to him and chat about the book. Instead of a quick text if you find a conversation going stale, make an effort to engage your peers.

We go from curiosity to a search for communion.

The ties we form through the Internet are not, in the end, the ties that bind. But they are the ties that preoccupy.

Once we become tethered to the network, we really don't need to keep computers busy. THEY KEEP US BUSY.

Online life is practice to make the rest of life better, but it is also a pleasure in itself.

But at the same time, there is pressure to use technology in classroom in ways that make conversation nearly impossible. Interestingly, this technology is often presented as supporting student "engagement.

We cannot achieve immersion without bringing our subjectivity into play.

He came to talk to you," Jenny

Interest sparked in Jess's eyes. "Then