In order to avoid the kind of conflict recently described here, I have decided to turn this blog into a members only site.
A private membership format will bring us a higher degree of honesty, professional safety, freedom of speech, and will protect us from those who, in my opinion, don’t fully grasp comprehensible input and who, as a result, feel compelled to attack what we are doing. It’s hard enough trying to learn about CI when one eye is constantly distracted by stupid arguments. I require privacy at this point.
I have expunged from this blog the inadvertent reference that sparked the ire of the person referred to in the blog of three days ago – with no apologies, however, because none are required. I might add to anyone interested that I have also deleted the few classless references to Myriam Met made on this blog a few years ago, with an apology to her.
Now we can move forward free of the sometimes nasty political edge that has lurked on this site since its inception about three years ago. I think of this new blog space as a closed system free of politics where I get to dialogue and dream about important new ideas in teaching with people I respect and trust . There will be, I suppose, an occasional rant for mental health. I will give you more details about the private membership blog soon.