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Comment on Univ. of Maryland contingent faculty task force by Meet your new professor: Transient, poorly paid | Reason & Existenz

Meet your new professor: Transient, poorly paid | Reason & Existenz — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 21:56:32 +0000

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Comment on Contingent academic democracy by Meet your new professor: Transient, poorly paid | Reason & Existenz

Meet your new professor: Transient, poorly paid | Reason & Existenz — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 21:56:24 +0000

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Comment on Robot graders for the poor by “[W]ith this bird everything is settled.” | More or Less Bunk

“[W]ith this bird everything is settled.” | More or Less Bunk — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 15:48:20 +0000

[...] human graders. Maybe they are, but who says those are our only two options? As Mark B. Brown has argued, the fact that we’re even having this debate is an acknowledgement of permanent austerity. [...]

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Comment on Robot graders for the poor by Kirsten Harjes

Kirsten Harjes — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 21:47:37 +0000

Great post. Right on. The other thing I was thinking this morning when I read the article is this: The poorer a university is, the more it will start to rely on technological crutches once they become cheap enough, because they can serve more kids with fewer faculty/TAs/Reader/Lecturers and whoever else does grading. Eventually, you’ll only get access to “real” faculty if you can pay the money, or if you’re the kind of kid that gets into the top schools.

What would actually be good about such software is its potential to become a tutor, and do what the tutors in the Student Help Center here at UCD do now. Give instant feedback on the sentence level. A sort of sophisticated spell/grammar check.

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Comment on Let them eat MOOC by What Can Art Museums Learn from the MOOC Phenomenon? | Art Museum Teaching

What Can Art Museums Learn from the MOOC Phenomenon? | Art Museum Teaching — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 19:54:36 +0000

[...] by some as offering an opportunity for those alienated from the world of art to get involved and slated by others who argue that images of famous painting and other artifacts are all well and good, but [...]

Comment on Rethinking science literacy by Boyd

Boyd — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 15:47:10 +0000

I personally wonder why you called this article, “Rethinking science literacy”. In any event, I really loved the post! Thanks for your effort, Tommy

Comment on Thanks for the techno-fix! by Mark Brown

Mark Brown — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 00:17:31 +0000

Thanks. I like the point about Friedman’s penchant for mixing metaphors.

Comment on Thanks for the techno-fix! by Ben

Ben — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 23:50:55 +0000

Though I’m glad you’ve engaged with these arguments to refute them, one thing needs to be mentioned: This is Thomas Friedman we’re talking about. Subject of this particular torching:

http://www.alternet.org/story/21856/flathead

Like Marx said of Proudhon, the solution for him does not lie in public action but in the dialectical rotations of his own head.

Comment on Thanks for the techno-fix! by David

David — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 18:09:26 +0000

I’m always amused by the “wow, we can watch lectures at home” because of computers argument. We have had TVs, VCRs, and DVDs for years and there is a reason they have not become a core pedagogical tool. If this approach worked, students would have already been buying cheap, burned DVDs from their bookstores for years.