Holding people accountable
Ta-Nehisi Coates’ column today is both a reminder and good discussion of the difference between labeling individuals as racists (or non-racists) and understanding that our history is one filled with racism: The idea that racism lives in the heart of particularly evil individuals, as opposed to the heart of a democratic society, is reinforcing to […]
The MOOC poem (apologies to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
There was a giant MOOC, based on a little book when MOOC hype was trending torrid, And when MOOCS were good, they were very, very good, But when they were bad they were horrid. Profs stood on their heads, “students” watching from bed, With nobody by for to hinder; Peer-graded squalor, plagiarized in the hollers, […]