Who is Glenn and can he tell us more about brain data?

We don't have to agree politically, but as scholars we should examine the research and be willing to adjust when more is revealed.

Social psychologists—on point for a lower division social science class to discuss!

Eye contact in the Zoom era is difficult because so many of us aren't on video. Even if webcams are on, we are often looking off at an angle...

Every campus seems to handle this differently. CSUMB, for example, has no students in dorms but does have people in its East Campus housing.

Always poignant for me to see a JFK reference

In my campus's summer professional development, prep for next term's "remote learning," many colleagues are seeing this limitation. Tech is the sparkly thing, easy to focus on. We say "pedagogy before technology," but many are really focused on what tech to use, how to preserve as much of last year's f2f as possible, etc. Most of which isn't helping plan for fall classes.

Is this "racial transfer gap" on top of the phenomenon of "transfer shock"?

Once this particular light goes on in one's head, it may be impossible to turn it off. Yet we still need the so-called "stale" cataloging of content. We need foundational knowledge. Perhaps the academy has just made its function (again) more visible under connectivism? And we are in a creative tension of sorts with knowledge cataloging as an end in itself?

What are some ways we who seem to "grok" participatory connected learning (or think we do) can make this concept more accessible to colleagues who lament the failure of "sit-and-get" faculty development/PD, but don't know what to do next? I was reminded of this a few days ago in a "mixed" meeting of faculty, staff, and administrators. We all meant well, but could have done better in planning some upcoming sessions that (we hope) will become a Community of Practice. I think a way to describe participatory culture in a room full of people who don't already know Henry Jenkins and Mimi Ito would help.

Why can't the university, with all its supposed resources, support PLN development among its faculty and staff?

One-size-fits-all is the perennial challenge of PD (professional development, faculty development)—the demand that faculty as learners must conform to the instruction, rather than bringing their full selves. There have been days, weeks, and even semesters when I felt marginalized (even as campus entities insisted that I wasn’t). The only way through this was the PLN (“my” PLN) that welcomed my whole self into another type of PD.

Two core questions in one? As to "how" bad info bubbles to the top of our search results, we know that the algorithms are proprietary—but the humans who design them bring their biases. As to "what is missing," Safiya Noble suggests here and elsewhere that the engineers in Silicon Valley could use a good dose of the humanities and social sciences in their decision-making. Is she right?

How are "Gen-Z" and "millennial" defined? Most people in casual conversation just mean "young people" but are not very clear about it. Pew Research thinks it should be about specific year groups.

Here, I think the author is just saying that Facebook and Twitter have taken a lot of heat from politicians about the 2016 election, Russian interference, etc. This year, the tech companies are showing that they are "good citizens" by having better security and helping young people register to vote.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTmztkqK-C4

Once you realize that you have a bias, you can try one of the suggested methods to counteract it. In this case, to get a realistic view of our progress towards goals, the suggestion is to build feedback loops into our routine.

What is "often enough" to form a virtual community?

How many things can you do at once? Short 4-min video on multitasking

I don't think there is an upper or lower age limit to bragging about how well we can multitask.

What happened in 1948 that changed the military?

True Confessions: I've never read Myrdal even though his work was of great influence. These days, I read people who cite him. For example, Roberts and Klibanoff start Chapter 1 of their great 2006 book, The Race Beat, immediately talking about Myrdal in depth. Sampler is here at Amazon:

The Race Beat

When I need insight into Myrdal, I know where to go first, thanks to this book.

Is the liberal arts missing a chance to connect better with students by likening the college experience to video games?

The LMS is a great example because it's ubiquitous across higher ed. And no one actually likes using an LMS. (There are things it's good for, as Lisa M. Lane has explained, but it's a hindrance in so many other ways.)

Back to the old New Yorker cartoon, "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog." Now, not only do you know it, we insist that you know it, and deal with it. Even with that, there are still sub-spaces that have "porous boundaries" such as Black Twitter.

I question this one. Our institutional (hierarchical) roles mask our pre-existing factionalism. Smile, or else. Be glad you've got a job. I often say "I'm just a lecturer" though sometimes it's with irony. The medium (Twitter in this case) may have given a sense that it was all right to speak out.

I'm arguing with some colleagues/friends about Sherry Turkle's book, Reclaiming Conversation. They pretty much don't like her take on social media, how we use our devices, etc.

Well, I keep a file but it's not just one file. I have a Facebook & Twitter & Google+ presence and even Diigo... Put them together for my file.

I've found this to be OH, SO TRUE.

"Digitally passive aggressive" is a wonderful and real term I plan to keep. I've done the muting of posts and hiding of relatives whose beliefs aren't quite aligned, ha ha, with mine. But now I have to reconsider. "To make a person seen and not heard..." I don't want to be on the receiving end of this. Rather, I see Facebook's algorithm as a force of the universe that keeps people from seeing all each other's posts. But I'm not sure it's my most authentic move to play along with this practice.

One temporal (as in time-related) note as it relates to "Black Twitter": This post was from Feb. 2013, after Trayvon Martin was killed but before George Zimmerman was acquitted in July 2013. Since #blacklivesmatter's ascendance this year, there is a main-stream media pseudo-awareness (external lens) on what they believe to be Black Twitter.