General Stanley McChrystal is the co-founder of McChrystal Group and is a Senior Fellow at Yale University's Jackson Institute for Global Affairs where he te...
Andreas Kuswara's insight:
It's interesting to hear the general's opinion and reflection about being connected. In this era of social network and proliferation of mobile devices, there is no shortage of means to be connected. But what kind of connections do we have? Being connected doesn't necessarily imply meaningful connection. From social perspective we all know that, don't we? From Facebook timeline to Twitter, Flickr stream to Instagram... What can you not know? Are those deep connection? Subjectivity probably in play here, "deep" and "meaningful" are extremely subjective words. How about in education? Surely there should be a standard by which we can measures meaning and significance? Or not? Of course anything is probably always better than nothing (read John Hattie's visible learning), so any connection is probably better than no connection, but how do we make judgement between one connection with the other? As we encourage students to connect to and through the internet, how meaningful is that connection? Should we or the students maka the judgement? What's educators' role in nourishing their students' connection building process? How do we evaluate connection? Because the general also said, it takes time to forge a connection. What if that connection is not worth the effort? Not meaningful? Is there such things as meaningless connection? Are the efforts then wasted? Or the journey worth more than the destination? Are we concious of these things?