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The passive-aggressive student
I’m working this year with several thoughtful, independent-minded grad students right now, and this afternoon I realized that I’ve been quite lucky the last few years in terms of my experiences with grad students (and I hope the converse as well!). Since that hasn’t always been the case, I thought I’d put down my thoughts while […]
The value of college III
Part of the value of a good college education is that much of it is surplus. In the same way that the early nineteenth-century education of women could have been perceived as superfluous, a good deal of what students learn could be seen as not directly or immediately useful in their lives. To some economists, […]
In #1b1t lies a proof of concept for microblogging for group annotation
Wired.com writer Jeff Howe has proposed a giant Twitter-wide reading experiment he’s calling One Book, One Twitter, where everyone on Twitter (or a great big gob of people) read and tweet about the passages they’re currently on. The topics code #1b1t (an example of a “hashtag”) is Howe’s proposal, and you can follow the latest […]
Historians’ automaticity, part 1
Concerns with science and math education are nothing new, and although the rhetoric today focuses on saving the planet and the economy, the argument for urgent intensification of STEM education is remarkably similar in structure to the Cold War era debates in the 1940s through the early 1960s: our country is in crisis, we need […]
Peer reviewing, redux and redux
I regularly attempt some form of student peer review process for short writing assignments and am regularly frustrated with the inadequacy of the process–inevitably someone falls down on the job either in terms of participating in peer review or submitting draft work or providing advice that is counterproductive… and leaves an awkward gap and a […]