tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22001031.post5305741383413978277..comments2024-02-28T18:29:41.120-08:00Comments on Not of General Interest: Random links about technology and teachingundinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05589384016564587214noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22001031.post-86995190614609279432011-05-20T11:52:46.243-07:002011-05-20T11:52:46.243-07:00These are all very interesting links. I am a deve...These are all very interesting links. I am a developer for WordStash (http://wordstash.com), which is a flash card based study tool that is also a very helpful piece of educational tech.TTDaVeTThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11013854482939033990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22001031.post-77669670942951801032011-05-17T21:32:34.614-07:002011-05-17T21:32:34.614-07:00My students demand paper books.
They also hate th...My students demand paper books.<br /><br />They also hate those textbooks which come in looseleaf, for binders. If it's a textbook, they want it in print and hard bound.<br /><br />They are 19, most of them. They love JSTOR but if it's a book, they want it on paper.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22001031.post-15161398017412109032011-05-17T13:16:37.351-07:002011-05-17T13:16:37.351-07:00-k-: That's exactly right! The pious "gre...-k-: That's exactly right! The pious "green" initiatives mostly just offload the costs and printing. It's just . . . different . . . to read things on a screen, and while I like it for some things, other types of reading are easier on paper. They just are.<br /><br />Ink: So they can use "Who is John Galt" as their catch phrase and be slender, beautiful capitalists like Dagny Taggart, of course! (Yes, I read it and its evil twin, _The Fountainhead_, several times as a teen, but it didn't turn me into John Boehner, thank God.) <br /><br />Bardiac, reading is the key, absolutely, although that feels a little heretical to say around comp theorists. Revision helps, but in all these years of teaching, I've never had a really good writer who wasn't also a really good reader. I'm just saying. <br /><br />You're right about the study, too: if you pay attention to students, they do better. I like your "11th week experiment"!undinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05589384016564587214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22001031.post-38833365098298723792011-05-17T06:48:00.495-07:002011-05-17T06:48:00.495-07:00I read the article in Slate, and it sounded like s...I read the article in Slate, and it sounded like she hasn't had any real composition teaching training, and so has no awareness of research into composition teaching, and thus thinks it's all about prescriptive stuff. She's on the mark that kids who read more tend to pick up writing stuff. Other than that, she needs to take some comp courses.<br /><br />Wasn't there some research done way back that whenever you tell someone they're part of a special research thing, their productivity picks up for a while? Let's tell all 11th week students that we're doing a massive campus research project every semester!Bardiachttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11846065504793800266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22001031.post-56810693395786366012011-05-15T09:59:19.892-07:002011-05-15T09:59:19.892-07:00Atlas Shrugged?
*blink blink blink*Atlas Shrugged? <br />*blink blink blink*Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22001031.post-83634261982589786192011-05-15T06:28:01.070-07:002011-05-15T06:28:01.070-07:00Re: the Stanford bit, I haven't ever used an i...Re: the Stanford bit, I haven't ever used an iPad so don't know what the specific complaints might be, but I've always felt the same way about .pdf readings and online handouts. What the 'green' initiatives did in effect was to make it my problem- the administration looks noble and saves money, while as a student I got to pay to print hundreds of pages of reading, and as a faculty member I was responsible for any copying beyond the bare minimum of syllabi and tests. Bah.-k-http://e@mail.comnoreply@blogger.com