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randomor Digital divide is not only about education. It's even not about mass communication. It's about information, any information. 09:13 PM October 17, 2007

One great reason for start blogging is blog can help you think out aload. It's a great internal communicating process, which could help us think better. And I can testify that.

I used to carry one small notebook to jot down any thoughts of mine. With twitter, it seems that I can do that with my computer or cellphone. What's best that it's also a external communication practice, in contrast to the old warm jotting notebook, which is a wholy internal communicate process. Despite that no one track my twitter, there is always the potential! :-P

About that, I should also reflect on my learning style, which is basically internal, which maybe the result of my personality: I am a introvert guy. So, according to wikipedia, I ...

take pleasure in solitary activities such as reading, writing, drawing, watching movies, listening to music, inventing, and designing. An introverted person is likely to enjoy time spent alone and find less reward in time spent with large groups of people (although they may enjoy one-to-one or one-to-few interactions with close friends). They prefer to concentrate on a single activity at a time and like to observe situations before they participate.. 

Introversion is not the same as shyness, though introverts may also be shy. Introverts choose solitary over social activities by preference, whereas shy people avoid social encounters out of fear. ^[5]

An introvert is energized when alone. Introverts tend to "fade" when with people and can easily become overstimulated with too many others around. Introverts tend to think before speaking. When given the chance, an introvert will sit alone and think rather than talk with someone else.

Ok, I admit I basically have all the attributes and tendencies decribed above. Watch out! :-P

I may consider read a book about personality psychology and research about the relation between personality and autonomy (self-directed learning). Maybe somebody else already done this.

Sorry for the self-centricity and verbosity. My reflection is that a lot of educational decisions I take in the past are influenced by my personality, e.g. choosing to skip most of my courses in college and study by myself, choosing not promote or even act like I have this blog...

By doing all that, I've avoided be influenced by the fickleness environment and kept on track during my college life. But I also isolated myself in my small ivory tower, and even cut myself from many learning opportunities that I could have benifited. I've been reading some papers about connectivism, which also spur me to think about the might-bes if I have connected myself with a larger network.
After realizing this, the logic notes of connecting to others have activated; the emotional notes of this network is swinging. And someday would come with my behavior change. Watch out!