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Safari Screen Capture

Posted on November 8, 2019 by admin

My workflow involves exploring lots of online content, finding a few things I think are interesting, saving these things for possible later use, and when I am looking for something to write about exploring this stored content for possibilities. I … Continue reading →

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Promised Reading List

Posted on November 7, 2019 by admin

This is a followup to my last post in which I encouraged the viewing of the Frontline documentary on Artificial Intelligence. In that post I promised to recommend a few books related to the topics covered in this documentary. My … Continue reading →

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Implications of AI

Posted on November 7, 2019 by admin

I encourage everyone to view and seriously consider the recent two-hour Frontline special on artificial intelligence. The program does a great job of exploring the wide impact AI will have. The positive and negative changes that are coming will seriously … Continue reading →

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What if Universities funded textbooks

Posted on November 6, 2019 by admin

A recent post from The Commons proposed that universities might drastically reduce the student cost of textbooks if the institutions funded faculty members to write textbooks. I wrote a couple of textbooks for Houghton Mifflin that eventually ended up with … Continue reading →

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Marginal Syllabus

Posted on November 4, 2019 by admin

I am pretty late in generating this post, but I thought some educators who focus on writing would be interested. Marginal Syllabus is multi-month activity for secondary and higher ed writing instructors to explore collaborative reading and annotation. The group … Continue reading →

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Why grades still matter

Posted on October 29, 2019 by admin

I often find myself disagreeing with some of the newer arguments for K12 education. Specific examples that occur to me at this moment would include the “no homework” and the “no grades” movements. This Chronicle post from Jeff Gentry considers … Continue reading →

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