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Terry Elliott

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

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robot reading industry

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  • Terry Elliott on 15 May 12
     
    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

Scholarly Journals - New Free Service Makes Keeping Up-to-Date Easy - PR.com - 1 views

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shared by Terry Elliott on 26 Dec 08 - Cached
  • Keeping up-to-date with the scholarly literature just became much easier, thanks to a new service called ticTOCs - Journal Tables of Contents Service.http://www.tictocs.ac.ukticTOCs is a new scholarly journal tables of contents (TOCs) service. It’s free, its easy to use, and it provides access to the most recent tables of contents of over 11,000 scholarly journals from more than 400 publishers. It helps scholars, researchers, academics and anyone else keep up-to-date with what’s being published in the most recent issues of journals on almost any subject.
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shared by Terry Elliott on 30 Dec 08 - Cached
  • 6 Things to Do in 2009 Find a new way to improve someone’s day (and determine if there’s value in it). Synthesize new ideas from outside your audience’s circle (and help us make meaning from them). Promote the great people out there ( and and keep doing it). Learn from brilliant people (and share what you learn). Work on interesting projects that matter to you (and empower others to participate). Discover your passions (and share them openly).
  • The first group of students has decided in advance that something of value might be said, and so they’re on the lookout for those valuable points. The  second group has made the opposite decision; they don’t expect anything said or shown in class to be worth their while, and so they don’t find anything in class worthwhile
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Annals of Education: Most Likely to Succeed: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker - 0 views

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shared by Terry Elliott on 20 Dec 08 - Cached
  • 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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      Terry Elliott on 20 Dec 08
       
      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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