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Terry Elliott

Orange Crate Art: Search results for hi and lois - 0 views

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    Mention by way of saying what i am not meaning when I talk bout close reading.
Terry Elliott

digital digs: robot graders, new aesthetic, and the end of the close reading industry - 0 views

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    This post brings together several threads I've been pondering recently: the explosion of conversation over the new aesthetic (see Ian Bogost and Bruce Sterling), conversation about the future of digital humanities (see Steven Ramsay and Ted Underwood), and an insightful post from Cathy Davidson on attention and education. He just separates "creative writers" from creative people so that the students have creative ideas but communicate them in an "uncreative," dull, mechanical, machinelike way where the fact that computers and people have different ideas about creativity doesn't matter. I'm interested in how machines read, but I'm not interested in their ability to mimic the dullest responses that humans can generate. Instead, I'm interested in the ways that computers (and other objects) participate in the aesthetic experiences of composition in ways that are "creative" rather than explicitly ignoring creativity. Rather than think of writing as a process where students produce widgets that can pass factory inspection (by robots or humans), maybe we can take up Davidson's suggestion, which might be read here as an invitation to develop new aesthetic relationships.
Terry Elliott

Annals of Education: Most Likely to Succeed: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker - 0 views

  • According to Hanushek, the U.S. could close that gap simply by replacing the bottom six per cent to ten per cent of public-school teachers with teachers of average quality.
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      How do we parse our teachers and what criteria will enable us to decide who is bad, average, good, great?
  • The school system has a quarterback problem.
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