Kay Sidebottom is a teacher, trainer and researcher who spoke very movingly at #BrewEd Wakefield about post-human education and the rhizomatic structures that allow us to put the child back at the centre of the curriculum. If that sounds dry or academic then let me just say that her moving and thought provoking presentation was absolutely the reverse – moving and straight from the heart. I asked her to write something for our website and she brought this. Just brilliant. Thank you Kay.
Rhizome
I used to think
Technology killed co-incidence.
Remember that time
We met by the canal
– five years without contact –
And the joy of a chance reunion?
But then I realised
Everything is connected.
And technology
Merely sprays water on the web
Throwing chance into sharp relief
Exposing rhizomatic threads and pathways
That link us all together.
We form and reform
Mark new territories
Tendrils spread out
Too fast to trace
Subterranean mycorrhizae
Bursting to the surface
for times of pause
where we meet in constellations
shining for a day.
I marvel at it.
And then I know.
It’s this!
This is how the change will come.
