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By ~LS~ On September 11, 2011 · Add Comment · In The Quotidian (yadda yadda) and tagged Tagged With: What I Did Today

Too busy!

By ~LS~ On March 26, 2011 · Add Comment · In The Quotidian (yadda yadda) and tagged Tagged With: What I Did Today, Work Sucks

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By ~LS~ On March 9, 2011 · 2 Comments · In The Quotidian (yadda yadda) and tagged Tagged With: What I Did Today

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Where’s Neil Postman when you need him?

By ~LS~ On January 22, 2011 · 2 Comments · In Pedagogy, Rhetoric, Technology, The Web and tagged Tagged With: Books, Computer, Generations, Media Ecology, Pedagogy, Rhetoric, Technoculture, Technology

I’m contemplating teaching Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death in my Introduction to Humanities class this semester, particularly Chapter 4 (“The Typographic Mind”). I don’t feel like scanning the chapter and I couldn’t find a pdf or doc online to use. Then it occurred to me that my students in all likelihood won’t read anything anyway, so why waste time scanning a document in the first place. I began to look for Sparknotes. I know, I’m bankrupt as an educator. At least I opted not to show the seventh grade history teacher’s youtube version of the Renaissance. I should get props for that.

Anyway, in my surfing, I ran into an amusing exchange on a forum. I don’t think the people involved were amused. I was, though, but in a depressing and ironic way. The exchange is started by a desperate student trying to locate a free copy of the [...]

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My first post of the year…

By ~LS~ On January 22, 2011 · Add Comment · In I have to work? and tagged Tagged With: Work Sucks

…And it’s January 22. I fear this is a sign of how the semester will be. I have over-committed myself to various things at BRCC. Some of what I’m doing is important to me, but it contains elements that are not. Others are important and I enjoy. In either case, I’ve forgotten how to say no and I need to start prioritizing.

Classes are going well so far. This semester I am teaching Introduction to Humanities for the first time ever. I’m excited about it and frustrated because I can’t keep my mind out of the theory clouds and in the community college classroom. I think I’ve put together something accessible, but we can only see how it unfolds.

I’ve been very persuaded by the literature I’ve been reading about students today. Regardless of the problems with categorizing and labeling, I have found the insights that characterize students to be [...]

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