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An Honorable Time
My students know better than to assume the existence of some mythical Golden Age of families, education, or anything else. And yet I’m allowed a certain nostalgia for my undergraduate days at Haverford College, in part because we had an incredible luxury (and students still do, I assume), taking exams any time during finals week, […]
Plagiarism
was originally intending to write about something else, and then I saw my friend Debbie Ohi’s Blatherings entry today on Internet stealing as well as Yen Shinkasen’s journal entry describing someone else who "borrowed" her entire site’s hand-coded design. Since I’ve had three cases of obvious plagiarism this semester (one stealing from an on-line source), […]
A former student e-mails
Last night, a student from the fall e-mailed me. Over the course of the last semester, she and I had a running correspondence about the teaching of the course as well as the substance of it as well. She’s an older student who, for a variety of reasons, was justifiably irritated at some of the […]
Magical moments
Every once in a while, students will say or do something that takes your breath away, and you trust that something you did as a teacher helped set that moment up. Today, I was lucky, and a student was luckier. A student group in each of my sections today organized a part of class around […]