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Turnitin.com, students’ intellectual property, and fair use
Eric Goldman has the latest news and commentary on the high school students’ lawsuit (and the suit’s dismissal) against having to submit papers to Turnitin.com (hat tip). It’s a fascinating and complicated issue, and Goldman’s discussion explains at least some of the tangles involved (though I wouldn’t be surprised if there were more).
Teaching about what humans do
I’ve been tagged by Craig Smith, who asks, Why Do You Teach and Why Does It Matter? after reading Dr. Crazy’s explanation of why she teaches literature. This comes on the heels of Stanley Fish’s boldly hedonistic Epistle to Philistines and the expansion on this, last night’s Epistle to Dumb-Ass Colleagues. (Okay, the posts were […]
One more for the distorted reading of course titles and descriptions
In 2006, the American Council of Trustees and Alumni wrote a screed, How Many Ward Churchills?, based entirely on superficial catalog analysis and ripped to shreds in many places, including Timothy Burke’s blog. It looks like the let’s try to suss what happens in a course from hundreds of miles away “method” is live and […]
Students and Youtube
A Palm Beach County middle-school student has been expelled from a magnet school after recording her teacher in class with a digital camera and posting a satirized form of it on Youtube. In Palm Beach as in many other districts, students are not generally allowed to have electronic devices on during the school day, but […]
Brandeis faculty defend academic freedom and common sense
Kudos to the Brandeis University Committee on Faculty Rights and Responsibilities, whose report on allegations of discrimination by Donald Hindley essentially ripped the administration from head to toe on procedural and substantive violations of academic freedom (hat tip). To wit: Brandeis’s investigation failed to engage in a bona fide investigation of how more than the […]