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Category Archives: Public Pedagogy
The Overwhelm
Brigid Schulte, author of Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time, talks with the Atlantic Monthly. Schulte scrutinizes this state of affairs: Why do we all feel so overworked? How is that feeling different for men … Continue reading
Posted in Philosophy & Politics, Public Pedagogy, Public Philosophizing
Tagged Brigid Schulte, labor, stress, the overwhelm
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The Youngest Technorati – NYTimes.com
Ryan [Orbuch]… is among the many entrepreneurially minded, technologically skilled teenagers who are striving to do serious business. Their work is enabled by low-cost or free tools to make apps or to design games, and they are encouraged by tech … Continue reading
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Tagged apps, technocrati
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Public Books — Stop Defending the Humanities
Those who matter most to the humanities fall, I think, into two classes. The most important is that relatively small group of 18-year-olds (disproportionately few from poorer families) who are inclined to study the humanities. Our immediate future rests primarily … Continue reading
1 In 4 Americans Thinks The Sun Goes Around The Earth, Survey Says : The Two-Way : NPR
A quarter of Americans surveyed could not correctly answer that the Earth revolves around the sun and not the other way around, according to a report out Friday from the National Science Foundation. The survey of 2,200 people in the … Continue reading
Scientists reading fewer papers for first time in 35 years : Nature News & Comment
A survey of the reading habits of US university researchers saw a drop in the traditional, paper-based consumption of information. A 35-year trend of researchers reading ever more scholarly papers seems to have halted. In 2012, US scientists and social … Continue reading
Posted in Basic News, Broader Impacts, Future of the University, Open Access, Peer Review, Public Pedagogy
Tagged broader impacts, research
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Coursera Blog • An Experimental “Meta-MOOC” Shaping the Future of Higher Education
When Professor Cathy Davidson of Duke University agreed to teach a Coursera course on the “History and Future of (Mostly) Higher Education,” which will launch on January 27, 2014, she was determined to see how the course itself could help … Continue reading
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Tagged Cathy Davidson, HASTAC, MOOCs
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Supporting Good Teaching
It’s a 50-year-old physics textbook that runs to 1,500 pages and whose contents were declared a failure by its famous author. It is also, according to various online reviews “spellbinding” and “an extraordinary book written by an extraordinary man”. One … Continue reading
Udacity, Coursera: Should celebrities teach MOOCs?
Free online courses do big numbers these days. So-called MOOCs, or massive open online courses, typically get tens of thousands of sign-ups to watch video lectures delivered by tweedy academics, some more photogenic than others. But imagine how many students … Continue reading
More and more teachers migrate online for professional development
since joining online learning communities, the writing I jot down on discussion forums, blogs, and Twitter, for example, far extend my thinking beyond what’s in my personal notebooks. My MiddleWeb blog, Two Teachers in the Room, keeps me connected with many educators like myself … Continue reading
Quitting academic jobs: professor Zachary Ernst and other leaving tenure and tenure-track jobs. Why?
Continuing the theme of a reblog we posted yesterday: ..there’s an important way that Ernst’s essay distinguishes itself: Most I Quitters are like me, which is to say failed academics, or like Lord, whose disillusion hit her midway down the … Continue reading
The Economy Does Not Depend on Higher Education – Commentary – The Chronicle of Higher Education
The notion that a person without a degree is doomed to unemployment is at best a widespread misconception, as unwarranted as blaming an economic recession on a paucity of skilled workers. The high unemployment numbers are not due to workers’ … Continue reading
Despite new studies, flipping the classroom still enjoys widespread support | Inside Higher Ed
…”Our goal is to better understand the conditions under which flipped classrooms lead to better student outcomes”… via Despite new studies, flipping the classroom still enjoys widespread support | Inside Higher Ed.
Inklings: Why I Jumped Off The Ivory Tower
For a long time, I”ve been the uncomfortable owner of a coveted faculty position that I didn’t want. My decision to leave isn\’t really about my department or university in particular, but about a perverse incentive structure that maintains the … Continue reading
A Wizard of Oz Moment for the Web: Pull back the Curtains
Lightbeam, a download produced by Mozilla, the US free software community behind the popular Firefox browser, claims to be a “watershed” moment in the battle for web transparency. Everyone who browses the Internet leaves a digital trail used by advertisers … Continue reading
How a Radical New Teaching Method Could Unleash a Generation of Geniuses | Wired Business | Wired.com
…Juárez Correa didn’t know it yet, but he had happened on an emerging educational philosophy, one that applies the logic of the digital age to the classroom. That logic is inexorable: Access to a world of infinite information has changed … Continue reading
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8 New Jobs People Will Have In 2025
New technology will eradicate some jobs, change others, and create whole new categories of employment. Innovation causes a churn in the job market, and this time around the churn is particularly large–from cheap sensors (creating “an Internet of things“) to … Continue reading
Harvard Faculty Request Faculty Oversight of HarvardX Their Usage of edX |e-Literate
Interesting reaction by Harvard’s Faculty of Arts & Sciences especially in light of the letter from the San Jose Philosophy Faculty directed to a member of the Harvard FAS. Harvard Faculty Request Faculty Oversight of HarvardX Their Usage of edX … Continue reading
What Dancy’s Late Late Show appearance has to say about the philosopher’s disappearance | Andrew Taggart
Dr. Andrew J. Taggart, Philosophical Counselor, considers the role of the public philosopher and gives a shout out to our efforts here at CSID. On April 1, 2010, the professional philosopher Jonathan Dancy, who happens to be the father-in-law of … Continue reading
The ‘Broader Impacts’ of Sequestration on Science
CSID Director Bob Frodeman has some suggestions about the interconnection of research & society in post-austerity world. Now that we’ve been driven off the “fiscal cliff,” perhaps we should look around and assess the results. It turns out that sequestration … Continue reading
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Tagged austerity, broader impacts, economics, education, future of the university, knowledge, peer assessment, science, science & ethics, Sequestration, society, technology
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Broader Impacts of the Fact that NASA Suspends All Education and Public Outreach Update – NASA Watch
Effective immediately, all education and public outreach activities should be suspended, pending further review. In terms of scope, this includes all public engagement and outreach events, programs, activities, and products developed and implemented by Headquarters, Mission Directorates, and Centers across … Continue reading
Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2012: MOOCs
Maybe the most informative article I’ve read on MOOCs, passed along to me by CSID’s own Keith Brown. It also includes a sort of ‘secret history’ of MOOCs. Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2012: MOOCs.
The looming spectre of differential tuition
Someone can do the relatively simple accounting and see that the humanities–”majors without an immediate job payoff”–are already subsidizing those which have a “job payoff.” In fact, this was already done at few institutions, including UCLA. But this is a … Continue reading
Hacking Your Education, part 2
Second part of a talk given to UNT”s Seven Circles, the Interdisciplinary Student Association. Watch part one here.
Hacking Your Education, Part 1
First part of a talk given to UNT”s Seven Circles, the Interdisciplinary Student Association. Watch part two here.
On Live Tweeting Your Own Lecture – The Long Road
Autotweeting a lecture and getting folks actively involved through social media… Anyone who actually uses twitter recognizes that its power comes not from what one pushes out, but from what one receives. This is felt most palpably when one invites … Continue reading