Education Focus
- What if you marked every book, every lesson? | Pragmatic Education 'here is the marking paradox: although it’s one of the most important things for pupils, it’s one of the most difficult things for teachers'. With some practical suggestions--although school-focused.
- And--associated with the above--In Socrates' Wake: Can we get students to read our comments on their papers? '[...] I have no idea whether they actually read the comments (especially because I make it fairly clear that I am not interested in what their grades are, only in whether they learn a lot, so very rarely get to listen to students who challenge their grades).'
- How Orwell and Twitter Revitalized My Course; The Chronicle of Higher Education 'Experts [...] have a much richer "density of connections among the concepts, facts, and skills they know." When they encounter a new piece of information or a new idea in their field of expertise, they immediately slot it into a fully developed network that enables them to see connections between it and dozens of other things they know. [...] My students, by contrast, are novice learners in the field; their knowledge of it is sparse and superficial. Especially at the beginning of a semester, [...] students might "absorb the knowledge from each lecture in a course without connecting the information to other lectures or recognizing themes that cut across the course."
- Keeping Introverts in Mind in Your Active Learning Classroom | Faculty Focus Another, rather neglected, aspect of inclusivity.
Other Business
- The Real Link Between Creativity and Mental Illness | Beautiful Minds, Scientific American Blog Network 'The latest research suggests that mental illness may be most conductive to creativity indirectly, by enabling the relatives of those inflicted to open their mental flood gates but maintain the protective factors necessary to steer the chaotic, potentially creative storm.'
- All Can Be Lost: The Risk of Putting Our Knowledge in the Hands of Machines - Nicholas Carr - The Atlantic 'The experience of airlines should give us pause. It reveals that automation, for all its benefits, can take a toll on the performance and talents of those who rely on it. The implications go well beyond safety. Because automation alters how we act, how we learn, and what we know, it has an ethical dimension. The choices we make, or fail to make, about which tasks we hand off to machines shape our lives and the place we make for ourselves in the world.'
- The joy of cemeteries » The Spectator 'A cemetery [...] is a sort of social history theme-park. There are fashions in funerary ornamentation — urns, angels, Jesus — just as there are fashions in names. Whenever I visit a graveyard, I am instantly absorbed by names; names that have stayed with us — Thomas, William, Emma, Elizabeth, Rebecca — and names that, for some reason, have not: Herbert, Winter, Ethel, Mennel. Ignatius...'
- APA Style Blog: How to Cite Works From the Spirit World 'I need to cite a book that was dictated by a spirit to a medium. Who’s the author here? I was thinking it would be the spirit, but now that I’ve put it into my reference list, it looks kind of weird. ...'
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