Education
Crowley (1998): Composition in the University
Composition In The University: Historical and Polemical Essays by Sharon Crowley My rating: 5 of 5 stars Crowley’s 1998 Composition in the University is Crowley’s perspective on the history of composition as a discipline and first-year requirement in North American universities. Much of her book explores how Composition has been undervalued in many ways by [...]
“your education”
Today’s television child [. . .] is bewildered when he enters the nineteenth-century environment that still characterizes the educational establishment where information is scarce but ordered and structured by fragmented, classified patterns, subjects, and schedules. It is naturally an environment much like any factory set-up with its inventories and assembly lines. The “child” is an [...]
notes from the interblags: ereading, twitter, plagiarism, potato chips
• Harvard Business: An analysis of Twitter based on gender. Men are more likely to follow other men and more likely to be followed by more people, although there are more women on Twitter than men. Additionally, 90% of the content on Twitter is produced by only 10% of users, and the medium number of [...]
According to Georgia Law Makers, Queer Theory is Not Legitimate
This was sent out on a listserv I’m on: According to Republican lawmakers in Georgia and the Christian Coalition, queer theory is not a legitimate course of study. On CNN’s American Morning today, Carol Costello reported on Georgia’s recent variation of the age-old debate over what should be taught in our schools. Georgia State University [...]
notes from the interblags
• Inside Higher Ed: On the age bias in hiring academics • Anne-Marie offers some information literacy tools for synonyms • Matt offers some tools for annotated websites • Matt also shares some videos about Twitter. This one on ambient intimacy is especially interesting. • Irene Monreo at Bilerico: Gay is NOT the new black [...]
Advertisements on calculus tests?
wow: Tom Farber gives a lot of tests. He’s a calculus teacher, after all. So when administrators at Rancho Bernardo, his suburban San Diego high school, announced the district was cutting spending on supplies by nearly a third, Farber had a problem. At 3 cents a page, his tests would cost more than $500 a [...]
notes from the interblags
• via The Feminist Underground: A UC Irvine professor is throwing a fit over mandatory sexual harassment training. It’s rather hard to believe. • Oregon State has joined iTunes University! I had students give a pretty good presentation on this arguing that OSU should start using iTunes U in my business writing class last year [...]
educated souls and goth makeup in schools
I love coincidence — it’s not “mere” as we would like to think, but instead useful. Just after finishing reading Chapter 5 of Kwame Anthony Appiah’s The Ethics of Identity, in which he devotes space to “Educated Souls” — the role of education in a liberal society — I saw this post at sociological images, [...]
grad school: killing the revolution
this comic seems all too accurate.
notes from the interblags: just some links
I’m going to have to give up on writing on some of these things, though I’ve wanted to. Some tabs that have been left open on my browser over the last month or so: • “The White Anti-Racist is an Oxymoron: An Open Letter to White ‘Anti-Racists’” by Kil Ja Kim at ChickenBones: A Journal [...]
