Instructional Designers and Technologists are grit optimizers, friction managers, and motivation farmers.
I would rather watch students or faculty struggling to figure out what cool things they can do with a new (technological) tool than struggling to figure out how to start using the (technological) tool.
"We are strangers and we came here from far outer parts."
Reagan, T. (2010). Non-western educational traditions.
"The hallmark of innovaton is surprise. No surprise, nothing new. Nothing new, no interest. No interest, no value. Therefore, creating surprise is a crucial step in creating value through innovation." Neumeier, M. (2014). The 46 Rules of Genius: An Innovator's Guide to Creativity. New Riders.
In Jim Collins' book Good to Great, Darwin Smith is quoted to have said, "I never stopped trying to become qualified for the job."
Collins, J. (2001). Good to Great. NYC, NY: HarperCollins Publishers Inc. p. 20
"Our technologies may change, but the fundamental principles of interaction are permanent."
Norman, D. (2013). The Design of Everyday Things. New York: Basic Books. p. 298.
"A good project manager will want to increase his or her knowledge of both the details and working practices on every project with which he or she is involved."
Friedlein, A. (2001). Web Project Management: Delivering Successful Commercial Web Sites. San Diego, CA: Academic Press.
Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote "every occupation, trade, art, transaction, is a compend of the world and a correlative of every other."
Emerson, R. W (1951 ). Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers.
"Honest criticism is the guardian of art, servant of the sincere and the despair and destruction of dishonesty."
It's a Date (1940). Directed by: William A. Seiter. Writing Credits: Krasna, N., Hall, J., Kohner, F., Block, R. Universal Pictures; A Joe Pasternak Production