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A twofer on Delaware student program and social justice, or "Let’s not confuse institutional prerogatives with students’ propensity to make mistakes"
I normally don’t waste bytes just to point to someone else’s blog and say, “What (s)he said!” In this case, though, Timothy Burke’s engagingly garrulous entry on the University of Delaware student orientation controversy serves double-duty to describe the obvious about the University of Delaware program and also help explain my discomfort with official statements by […]
Social annotation for teaching how to read difficult material
A few days ago, I raved about the possibilities of social annotation. What I barely touched were the teaching purposes of social annotation. Let me provide an example from my masters course in social foundations of education. Below is the root to a discussion thread over the past week on the Seattle and Louisville desegregation […]
Social annotation and the marketplace of ideas
David Rothman has a wonderful idea from the growth of social annotation tools and the development of an open e-book format: How long until savvy writers pester publishers to let them do interactive e-books? — where readers’ comments can appear in relevant places in the texts or elsewhere in the books. Imagine the possibilities for […]
Poor teaching != indoctrination
The response to the AAUP’s statement Freedom in the Classroom (released September 11) has been fascinating, from Peter Wood and Stephen Balch’s tendentious attempt to fisk the report (thereby burying the legitimate criticisms) to Erin O’Connor’s more focused criticism to Stanley Fish‘s column this Sunday, where he takes the statement (rightly) to task for an inane […]
On metaphors and people
A few days ago I commented on an Eduwonk entry about Michelle Rhee’s wanting more convenient dismissal options for non-unionized central-office staff… and teachers, in part to give some positive reinforcement for the decision to allow comments and in part because there are some interesting ideas in the entry that I wanted to follow up […]