I also had thoughts of “love first” as step one in relating with learning this past week as well. I see “love” through Nel Noddings’ pedagogy of care where if I care about someone I will care about what I ask them to do; through Susan Scott’s (Fierce Conversations) idea of “coming out from behind ourselves” with honesty and vulnerability; through Parker Palmer’s (A Hidden Wholeness) notion of us finding wholeness in joining our inner and outer selves so we can participate in circles of trust within community; through Brene Brown’s (The Gifts of Imperfection) discussion of love and belonging, which ground our sense of worthiness; and through Hannah Arendt (The Human Condition): “Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but antipolitical, perhaps the most powerful of all antipolitical forces.”

What does that look like in intentionally designed (digital) learning spaces?