tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10166090.post4395141222444022936..comments2024-02-17T07:59:18.705-08:00Comments on Grad Student Madness: A new New SchoolRufushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17762279210783841414noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10166090.post-36236201299490456292022-09-04T01:34:22.583-07:002022-09-04T01:34:22.583-07:00e2y30a8p32 e6n71o7c16 p7y72s7d68 k6z44y0i12 a7... <a href="https://sootes76311.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow"><strong>e2y30a8p32</strong></a> e6n71o7c16 <a href="https://sateyn74609.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow"><strong>p7y72s7d68</strong></a> k6z44y0i12 <a href="https://mctyse86332.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow"><strong>a7i08a6d40</strong></a> z6q27c3b66seighshenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07382385881715900320noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10166090.post-33384627148634482622022-07-17T21:55:06.281-07:002022-07-17T21:55:06.281-07:00important source replica bags aaa quality go to w...<a href="https://www.dolabuy.ru/dior-c-244_251/high-quality-christian-dior-blue-and-white-porcelain-hats-p-1809.html" rel="nofollow"><strong>important source</strong></a> replica bags aaa quality <a href="https://www.dolabuy.ru/hourglass-c-157_338_339/replica-balenciaga-hourglass-top-handle-bag-lychee-pattern-black-p-3074.html" rel="nofollow"><strong>go to website</strong></a> replica bags on amazon <a href="https://www.dolabuy.ru/mahina-c-157_158_259/high-quality-m55800-louis-vuitton-muria-mahina-leather-black-bag-p-1916.html" rel="nofollow"><strong>next</strong></a> replica bags supplierthenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14785103838056305719noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10166090.post-68162969752506266892008-05-31T06:52:00.000-07:002008-05-31T06:52:00.000-07:00The only way to do it is to teach interaction. The...The only way to do it is to teach interaction. The same way we try to teach "non-electronic" interaction. I constantly ask people to look things up and email it to the class. Or we've all had a shared Google Doc open. Or I've asked people to text their friends, relatives, whoever and get opinions, or I've asked them to find it on a map for me. If the class requires that the computers and phones be used for the class, obviously facebook time drops.<BR/><BR/>I see this function in my grad classes. We are constantly finding things, mapping things, looking it up in Wikipedia or Wiktionary, digging through articles, passing the links around, throwing the results up on the big screen. It has become an essential part of the learning process, really helping to solve the issue of differing knowledge bases. So, knowing that it can work, I've had less trouble integrating it into undergraduate classes.<BR/><BR/>But it also requires an acceptance of the fact that there are disengaged students. Oh well. I really don't think it is any worse now than when I was an undergrad. Yes, more people are on Facebook. But fewer are sound asleep, doing crosswords, reading the newspaper. I'm not sure that's worse in any measurable way. Just different.irasocolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01412837280249622430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10166090.post-26502622895920442982008-05-31T04:36:00.000-07:002008-05-31T04:36:00.000-07:00The problem we have at Mall U is that we really ha...The problem we have at Mall U is that we really have no authority and we try to compensate by being overly flexible! I don't know how we could meet the students halfway on it. We let them use laptops and, invariably, if I sit in the back of the lecture hall, all but one of them will be on youtube or facebook or whatever. I don't know how we use that technology to get them to read actual course material. We have tried the online blackboard site, which sort of works. And they do seem to like the HBO Rome series. But, again, when we ask them to read five pages for class, it's somehow too much.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10166090.post-62697241613134664122008-05-30T12:47:00.000-07:002008-05-30T12:47:00.000-07:00Imagine that as an undergrad education, yeah, we'd...Imagine that as an undergrad education, yeah, we'd all be in better shape.<BR/><BR/>As for technology, I'll quickly send you to a couple of my posts...<BR/>http://speedchange.blogspot.com/2008/04/technology-and-equity.html<BR/>http://speedchange.blogspot.com/2008/04/considering-universal-design.html<BR/>http://speedchange.blogspot.com/2008/03/cognitive-authority.html (which contains a Dr. Soltan debate)<BR/>http://speedchange.blogspot.com/2008/01/social-networking-and-education-as-we.html (on social networks)<BR/>http://speedchange.blogspot.com/2007/12/dont-hang-up-on-your-students-futures.html (on mobiles in the classroom)<BR/>and I'll suggest some of the free readings listed here<BR/>http://speedchange.blogspot.com/2008/04/reading-assignments.html<BR/>Anyway, the model is interactivity, outreach, and converting that "back channel" into something everyone can access. But those notions are based in flexible authority, and envisioning the classroom as a community of scholars - and expecting behavior that goes with that.irasocolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01412837280249622430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10166090.post-4266543114291731732008-05-30T11:25:00.000-07:002008-05-30T11:25:00.000-07:00I'm definitely warming to technology. What sort of...I'm definitely warming to technology. What sort of models would work best do you think?<BR/><BR/>Incidentally, that list is just incredible. I'm speechless. I just can't wait to get the stuff on there that I haven't read yet from the BNF tomorrow.Rufushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17762279210783841414noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10166090.post-88485018345189721012008-05-30T11:18:00.000-07:002008-05-30T11:18:00.000-07:00There is a fascinating model out there. St. John's...There is a fascinating model out there. St. John's in Annapolis isn't just the Naval Academy's big croquet rival, it is also a "great books" college, with everybody reading the canon, and doing little more than immersing themselves in it.<BR/>http://www.stjohnscollege.edu/academic/SFreadlist.shtml<BR/><BR/>But, as I say, without a society which prizes this knowledge and which honors those with knowledge, this is a micro-niche thing.<BR/><BR/>As for technology. PowerPoint is not what I'd call "ICT" - it is a one-way communication system that repeats the worst of blackboard instruction, but without the benefit of instructor motion. (I tend to call PowerPoint "the filmstrip of the 21st Century). But what Dr. Soltan picks on are the interactive technologies, and interactive technologies can really power learning if instructors use them. They also allow many currently excluded from school success to succeed. And sometimes - as I've said on my blog - I think that preventing that success is the motivator behind many tech "opponents."irasocolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01412837280249622430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10166090.post-49761340179789655862008-05-30T10:47:00.000-07:002008-05-30T10:47:00.000-07:00Hiromi: Thanks, that is a good piece. He's definit...Hiromi: Thanks, that is a good piece. He's definitely thought further ahead than I have.<BR/><BR/>Narrator: I'm more sympathetic to her technology gripes after spending an excruciating semester TAing for a prof who seemingly could only communicate through Powerpoint.<BR/><BR/>It's funny- the way academia functions sort of forces us to become poseurs. We don't get a handle on any tradition in undergraduate education and then get pressured to specialize or sink. It's maddening.<BR/><BR/>And I've seen exactly what you described happen before, and actually most often with people who were in our department to get qualified to teach High School history. It's terrifying how many of them both plan to teach history and hate to read books. <BR/><BR/>I tend to hate my shortcomings with the western tradition, but read all the time, so eventually I'll get there.<BR/><BR/>As for imperialism, yes, it's that too. But that's not all there is to the western heritage, and you wouldn't believe how many grad students I've met who believe that it really is nothing but imperialism, with a side of racism.Rufushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17762279210783841414noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10166090.post-42125408471789821182008-05-30T08:12:00.000-07:002008-05-30T08:12:00.000-07:00Re: New New Schools -- I recently read a piece wri...Re: New New Schools -- I recently read a <A HREF="http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?page_id=6" REL="nofollow">piece</A> written by a history prof at Swarthmore proposing a new sort of liberal arts college. It's worth a read.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10166090.post-87774264036638121522008-05-30T04:26:00.000-07:002008-05-30T04:26:00.000-07:00Though Margaret Soltan won't let me comment on her...Though Margaret Soltan won't let me comment on her blog when she uses it to bash technology in education, she does have some valuable stuff to say. It too often seems wrapped in that thin American veneer of pseudo-elitism (elitism which comes from credentials, not from knowledge or skills), but no matter. I think, too often, her way of making the argument defeats the argument in US terms.<BR/><BR/>Because Dr. Soltan will suggest that these things are important despite seeming irrelevant to everyday student life - an American concept. And I would argue that they are important exactly because they are perpetually relevant to everyday life.<BR/><BR/>So, besides applying to work/study at your new New School, let me tell this story.<BR/><BR/>In my very first PhD seminar I watched as a room full of mostly white, mostly Midwestern, most American PhD candidates in education (special education! in fact), declared one after another that they themselves had "no culture." "I'm just from here."<BR/><BR/>Ah. No wonder I have never fit in. These people have been in school continually since they were 5 years old (at least). They have secondary school diplomas, they have university degrees, they have masters degrees, except for me, everyone in the room had been teaching, and yet they have had zero cultural education. They know so little history, so little about language, so little about cultural philosophy, so little about themselves, their community, their nation, and their traditions, that - I got myself in deep trouble by pointing this out that first day - of course they cannot successfully contact any other culture coming into their classrooms. They cannot respond to any other traditions. They cannot interact because they do not actually believe in the ideas of culture or tradition.<BR/><BR/>Of course western philosophy is imperialist. Western culture is imperialist. Western liberalism is imperialist. Western capitalism is imperialist. Western religion is imperialist. Of course. But at least 18th/19th Century British imperialists knew who they were and where they had come from, and thus had a basis for interaction. Americans, raised in false sense of 'modernism sans culture' are the most clueless people in human history, and the least inquisitive.<BR/><BR/>This failing penetrates the social sciences even more than the humanities. It is what makes American social science research today worthless. Even the best. When Harvard's Robert Putnam can write an entire book about Democracy in Italy (an early PhD research methods reading) and forget to mention that the boundary of the Holy Roman Empire crossed the Italian peninsula for 800 years, it demonstrates a stunning failure of knowledge and education. It means that a major professor at America's elite university does not know enough western history, enough western philosophy to either support or debunk post-colonial arguments. And because he does not know enough of the canon, he doesn't even know why post-colonial arguments would be made.<BR/><BR/>Enough of my rant. Liberal Arts education - as you say - helps us to become human. It starts by telling us who we are and where we are. And without that knowledge we move out in the world - if we do move out into the world at all - as blind and deaf wanderers.<BR/><BR/>It is essential because it is the most relevant thing in the world today. Without it we are as clueless and worthless on the planet as our past 20 years of Ivy League-educated presidents would suggest.irasocolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01412837280249622430noreply@blogger.com