Recently watched Emily Levine’s theory of everything Ted Talk. I am no post modernist, so wouldn’t agree with all of her thoughts, but I liked her concept of the trickster – the one who deliberately avoids trying to be objective, or drawn into win/lose debates.

There is currently a lot of debate going on at the moment around various aspects of educational technologies, eportfolios, IAM, etc. which is trying to be very objective, and narrow everything down to neat and tidy applications with fixed standards for interoperability, etc. I can’t help thinking that there is the need for a trickster or two in these discussions.