“Whole language is not a program, package, set of materials, method, practice, or technique; rather, it is a perspective on language and learning that leads to the acceptance of certain strategies, methods, materials, and techniques.—Dorothy Watson, 1989.”

headsets that monitor student concentration levels by reading and translating their brain signals in class.

an ancient Chinese chess game

“This student doesn’t like to answer questions in English class, so maybe his parents and teacher should do something.”

the items that had the most salience in the individual responses.

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You’ll see that we put a lot of emphasis on our expectations for each other

I wanted us to discuss and agree on expectations for grading,

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and that we may identify other topics or issues that warrant exploration along the way.

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Come to classpreparedto discuss topic through readings, research, etc

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Course Objectives Outlined bythe Instructor:

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“our desks were never meant to be our altars.”

as we see our deepest selves as inextricable from our jobs.

The crisis, in one way or another, is spiritual.

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Unintended negative outcomes

Too much of the web is driven by perverse incentives

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"That practice is essentially helping to rewire your brain to be able to make a different emotion [besides anger] much more easily," she says.

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At first, these stories seemed to me a bit too scary for little children. And my knee-jerk reaction was to dismiss them.

and adopt you out to another family,"

Now at some level, all moms and dads know they shouldn't yell at kids.

"Kids learn emotional regulation from us."

Her own parenting style is so gentle that she doesn't even believe in giving a child a timeout for misbehaving.

Traditionally, the Inuit saw yelling at a small child as demeaning.

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Of course, none of us is rude enough to text during class

even in the meekest of us

the celebration of cruelty, of teaching those kids a lesson.

Students told me so.

I do care. It matters to me a lot.

“You cannot pass a course you don’t attend.”

It’s a little more strict than that because in practice I’ve found that I have limits

I need you to be in class for your own sake and for the sake of the class as a community

My attendance policy is now as loose as I’m currently comfortable making it.

current policies

the fact is, we used the idea of How Things Are In College to strike fear into our students.

My assumption that a college syllabus should be authoritarian and even perhaps cruel was not, then, an assumption based on my own experience of higher education, but was rather an assumption born of ideas I had received, absorbed, and not questioned — ideas from influences more disparate than my own experience.

Note that this is not a function of how much work the course entails nor the standard to which that work is being held. (The amount of reading and writing is meant to be consistent with a 200-level course, as is the grading standard.)

Additionally, I am actually quite skeptical of some of the trends in “gaming” higher education, that we must keep moving ourselves towards student interests to be engaging or engender learning.

The syllabus is our first, best opportunity to strike the right chord for an entire term.

In other words, if our syllabus is full of requirements, rules, expectations, if we outline how we will be grading, how students will be evaluated, the specifics for how students should participate, we cannot expect that our attempts to be more flexible, to be personal, to relate to students will succeed later in the term. The syllabus is our chance to put that best foot forward (and outline expectations for the course).

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These are our first words in a digital classroom.

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How can improvisation occur online to reinforce learning?

The techniques of on-ground learning do not translate well.

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just as the pedagogue will enter a room and rearrange the tables and chairs to suit his purpose,

the ways learners have already adopted the patterns and habits of the learning within it, indicates that we are not ready to teach online

It may be teaching — in the same way that reading from a handout is teaching

The LMS largely erased mindfully aware teaching, and made excuses for unconscionable practice

Not every teacher is a pedagogue. Pedagogy is a scholarship unto itself

The point is this: compared with planned organisational structures, emergent structures are inefficient at producing socially useful results.

The pressure to publish and demonstrate academic accomplishment comes from within.

Better to be an academic mediocrity, publishing occasionally in second-rate journals, than to be your colleagues’ archetype of academic failure.

but they are like other workers in that they too are motivated by fear and greed.

It’s the universal obsession of the scholarly profession.

which is organised more by the market than by the state.

Once launched into an academic career, faculty members find their scholarly efforts spurred on by more than a love of the work. We in academia are motivated by a lust for glory.

They find that scholarship is a mode of work that is intrinsically satisfying. It’s more a vocation than a job.

One factor, of course, is that this population is highly self-selected.

Academic administrators – chairs, deans, presidents – just don’t have this kind of power over faculty. It’s why we refer to academic leadership as an exercise in herding cats. Deans can ask you to do something, but they really can’t make you do it.

Greed works by holding the prospect of pay increases and promotions in front of workers in order to encourage them to exhibit the work behaviours that will bring these rewards: Do it my way and you’ll get what’s yours.

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Princeton’s 5.5 percent admissions rate isn’t an unfortunate side effect of the admissions system — it’s the point.

Or we could go even further and take up the radical suggestion made by Princeton sociologist Dalton Conley: Turn the admissions process into a semi-lottery. Colleges could set minimum standards around factors like SAT scores and extracurriculars.

Security through scale versus security by obscurity is a terrible trade–it leaves out data ownership concerns

Janet concludes

Exit Option Democracy is Not an Option, and Not Democracy

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First, we know from sociology that people need to have the right to behave differently in different settings (fundamental to Goffman and 60 years of sociology). For Google to create a single identity was also risky.

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Adopting a culture of patience, and rejecting the on-going culture of crisis.

transparency, not accountability.

and are divorced from insurance and other so-called “benefits.”

Here, however, is a list of where to start,

My skepticism lies in understanding that our solutions are too complex to be heard, too antithetical to ideologies that remain sacred to the media, the public, and political leadership.

Everyone who cares about the topic is officially required to take one of two stances.

As I conceive of it, open is an ecosystem, made up of many related aspects.

And a senior at a Baltimore, Maryland public high school launched a GoFundMe campaign and raised more than $80,000 to bring heat to her freezing school buildings.

In 2005, scholars and analysts in the United States and Canada were becoming increasingly concerned about the privatization of education, especially higher education.

what is a public school?

and what they should look like.

Love that is as strong as credence 1 cannot move from 1 due to any reason, for it is unconditional and thus irresponsive to any conditions.

When there is no answer to the ‘why’ question other than love itself, when your love is not based on anything else, when it does not change according to anything, this is unconditional love.

as it was not built on the basis of information in the first place.

To act rationally is to act according to reason, and to act without reason is to act irrationally.

While other feminisms question the unequal value placed on femininity and masculinity, highlighting the resulting gender inequalities, the nonbinary movement questions why we insist on these categories at all.

Unlike womanhood or manhood, nonbinary identity is open to anyone and forced upon no one. It is radically anti-essentialist. It is opt-in only.

I am suggesting that what stands between elephants and us is not necessarily limited intelligence, limited ability to report facts to one another, or limited ability to signal preferences. Rather, it might be a lack of ability to store records of reasons in the environment.

Risk aversion is only one aspect of conservatism, but it’s a fundamental one.

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But before we get this decoding mission off the ground, we have no empirical basis to reject the hypothesis that elephants use language.

If elephant communication has syntax, and if this syntax relies on cross-channel modulation, we shouldn’t expect the rules of elephant grammar to map on to the syntactic categories of any human language. Elephants inhabit deeply different lifeworlds from humans, have different hierarchies of motivation, and make different perceptual discriminations.

In the human symbol system, for example, two identically shaped arrows can mean ‘Turn!’ and ‘Don’t turn!’ if they’re modulated by a second code system in which green means ‘Go!’ and red means ‘Stop!’

The existence of multiple means of communication is important, because syntax could be encoded in modulation across channels. That is, varying states in one channel (trunk vibrations) could introduce general but systematically related changes to the meanings of signals in another channel (say, trunk touches).

to step back at the end of each month and reflect a bit about the experience of writing regularly

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Individual scholars can resist this by actively seeking out obscure work by global South scholars.

Reasoning in formal systems is my new name for what we call quantitative reasoning and use to mean Math, Statistics, or CS. I’ve chosen the different term because many common uses of the term quantitative reasoning focus primarily on statistical reasoning.

Postscript: I would like to see more administrators develop statistical literacy

The folks who need more quantitative results could then hire a cadre of faculty to read those essays, identify representative examples [12], and assign categorical scores [14].

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Interestingly, the metaknowledge correction influenced the outcome only when the majority had less than about 70 per cent of the vote. A large majority was always right. This is a useful lesson for real-world disputes. A strong consensus is the closest proxy to truth that we have. The lone wolf who knows better than the misguided masses is much rarer than Hollywood movies would lead you to believe.

Likewise, you should beware of politicians who rail against rampant corruption; they doth protest too much. Truly innocent people are inclined to think the best of others.

lending it is almost like giving your mind away.

By keeping software open ended and allowing learners to enter their own responses

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proved to be more glitter than gold.

The 20th-century Russian philosopher Mikhail Bakhtin believed that the answer lay in dialogue. We need others in order to evaluate our own existence and construct a coherent self-image.

Kitty Genovese,

he experimental design of memory testing, for example, tends to proceed from the assumption that it’s possible to draw a sharp distinction between the self and the world. If memory simply lives inside the skull, then it’s perfectly acceptable to remove a person from her everyday environment and relationships, and to test her recall using flashcards or screens in the artificial confines of a lab.

Yet the notion of a fluctuating and ambiguous self can be disconcerting.

It’s this kind of cognitive transformation model which underlies much of the deepest work on intelligence augmentation. Rather than outsourcing cognition, it’s about changing the operations and representations we use to think; it’s about changing the substrate of thought itself.

Historically, lasting cognitive technologies have been invented only rarely. But modern computers are a meta-medium enabling the rapid invention of many new cognitive techologies.

There are only three possible outcomes of this conflict: First, one or the other side prevails and imposes its will on the other; this is the outcome red America is now pursuing. Less dangerously, perhaps, the two halves of the county could go their separate ways; while red America frequently threatened to take this course under President Barack Obama, like it or not, red America depends upon blue America to pay its way; if there is a new secession, it will be those in blue this time, as we are already seeing. Red states likely will fight it. Finally, of course, a new synthesis might emerge that reunites the states. This is certainly possible. Unfortunately, at the moment, it appears highly unlikely.

Trump and his supporters seem intent on exacerbating it, confident that with roughly half of the country behind them they have the power to do as they please and suppress the other half.

This amounts to governments across America waging economic war against a fellow government, not in the traditional battle for jobs and economic competitiveness but in retaliation for policies of which they don't approve.

some of red America talked about taking the country back through "Second Amendment remedies" or seceding. The main difference now is that blue America may actually do the latter. In fact, it's already in the process of doing so, with the climate controversy the biggest catalyst yet. Well over 100 of the nation's mayors, as well as the governors of nine states, have announced that they intend not only to comply with the goals of the Paris agreement – which any jurisdiction (or, for that matter, individual) can do – but also to band together with scores of universities and even private corporations to form a new coalition of "non-national actors," in the words of Michael Bloomberg, asking the United Nations to be treated on a par with, well, real countries on future climate progress.

The difference between the actual government and the parallel one? The former has an army. But in the long term, can a government, and its army, hold territory where it has lost large swaths of the population? As people increasingly find the means to unite and construct self-governing mechanisms outside of "government," can they actually opt-out of governments that don't represent them? That's a proposition that Venezuelans will be testing in coming weeks.

Only a living planet could display such mineralogical fecundity.

love for her enemies

As uninvited guests and visitors to this part of the world, we have claimed our new home on lands stolen from indigenous peoples.

Furthermore, most social justice 101 articles I see online are prescriptive checklists.

It’s a one-off negotiation judged by a single metric – price.

For his part, the literacy expert Frank Smith recommended bringing a second adult into the classroom, someone whose views diverge from the teacher’s — and who can challenge those views without engaging in a debate.

The defiance and demand of the marginalized or disempowered is inherently defensive in nature whereas the defiance and demand of the powerful is inherently aggressive and menacing.

Disruptive innovation as the explanation for how change happens has been subject to little serious criticism, partly because it’s headlong, while critical inquiry is unhurried; partly because disrupters ridicule doubters by charging them with fogyism, as if to criticize a theory of change were identical to decrying change; and partly because, in its modern usage, innovation is the idea of progress jammed into a criticism-proof jack-in-the-box.

Beginning in the eighteenth century, as the intellectual historian Dorothy Ross once pointed out, theories of history became secular; then they started something new—historicism, the idea “that all events in historical time can be explained by prior events in historical time.”

We have to learn what’s urgent, and what’s important, and that sometimes they do not coincide.

The only coherent parallel we have is the replacement of feudalism by capitalism – and thanks to the work of epidemiologists, geneticists and data analysts, we know a lot more about that transition than we did 50 years ago when it was “owned” by social science.

Once you understand that information is physical, and that software is a machine, and that storage, bandwidth and processing power are collapsing in price at exponential rates, the value of Marx’s thinking becomes clear. We are surrounded by machines that cost nothing and could, if we wanted them to, last forever.

push commercial forces into areas of data production that were non-commercial before

I could be persuaded otherwise, but I believe that a networked computer is indeed a greater distraction than a pencil.

Entertaining these present-future fictions only distracts from the imperative deconstruction of our present ones. Liberals are the glitch, and once you realize it, everything falls into order.

The promise of a false world appeals to these liberals because they occupy societal enclaves without material stakes, a pleasant fiction whose stability depends not on meaningful forms of artistic expression or civic engagement, but on the operational smoothness of award shows or the flakiness of croissants in the 16th arrondissement.

“Did the Oscars Just Prove That We Are Living in a Computer Simulation?”

So far, the aliens that developed the simulation of this world have rigged the game in their favor.

one that steals thought and energy away from addressing materialist concerns such as wealth distribution, affordable-housing shortages, and access to basic needs like clean water.

It lends an air of seriousness to yet another pointless debate

offering superiority and certainty to those who feel devalued in uncertain times

but its underlying appeal belongs to the realm of basement conspiracy theories.

If there is no attention for long periods of time the Clock uses the energy captured by changes in the temperature between day and night on the mountain top above to power its time-keeping apparatus.

This is the world’s slowest computer.

Each time the chimes ring, it’s a melody the Clock has never played before.

Kevin Kelly

Aeon Magazine

We are not separate from our environment, from our universe.

is moreover literally species suicide

Our disrespect is damaging to all things

There is so little difference between people of different races, genders, religions, nations in terms of the spectrum of existence that we are, really, all one within a standard deviation.

I accept that, though, not as a digital concept, but an analog concept.

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Air-conditioning can help but will ultimately only add to the carbon problem

But do not let us quarrel any more,

I don’t have de-escalation training. I’m the one being held at gunpoint. I’m the one thinking my life could end if he panics. Yet, I’m the one who must remain calm. The legal system is asking untrained civilians to de-escalate panicky cops.

Looking as if she were alive.

Notice Neptune, though, Taming a sea-horse, thought a rarity, Which Claus of Innsbruck cast in bronze for me!