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Adam Babcock

The Sad, Beautiful Fact That We're All Going To Miss Almost Everything : Monkey See : NPR - 5 views

www.npr.org/...oing-to-miss-almost-everything

reading literacy education english

shared by Adam Babcock on 21 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • What I've observed in recent years is that many people, in cultural conversations, are far more interested in culling than in surrender. And they want to cull as aggressively as they can.
  • It is the recognition that well-read is not a destination; there is nowhere to get to, and if you assume there is somewhere to get to, you'd have to live a thousand years to even think about getting there, and by the time you got there, there would be a thousand years to catch up on.
  • If "well-read" means "not missing anything," then nobody has a chance. If "well-read" means "making a genuine effort to explore thoughtfully," then yes, we can all be well-read. But what we've seen is always going to be a very small cup dipped out of a very big ocean, and turning your back on the ocean to stare into the cup can't change that.
aunt tammie

E-verything! - 16 views

johart1.edublogs.org

web2.0 tools resources blog

shared by aunt tammie on 25 Jun 11 - Cached
  • aunt tammie on 25 Jun 11
     
    jo hart website
Sara Kajder

How to Listen - NYTimes.com - 13 views

opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/...how-to-listen

shared by Sara Kajder on 02 Jul 13 - No Cached
    • Sara Kajder
      Sara Kajder on 02 Jul 13
       
      What does Gutkind argue here that surprises you?
Leslie Healey

The Dark Side of Verbs-as-Nouns - NYTimes.com - 13 views

opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/...he-dark-side-of-verbs-as-nouns

shared by Leslie Healey on 07 Apr 13 - No Cached
    • Leslie Healey
      Leslie Healey on 07 Apr 13
       
      great example: interesting AP example?
  • take-away
  • take-away
  • ...14 more annotations...
  • unders
  • e specialist vocabulary of a particular profession or community
  • n software
  • real estate agent
    • Leslie Healey
      Leslie Healey on 07 Apr 13
       
      attorneys' "word of art" cease and desist
    • Leslie Healey
      Leslie Healey on 07 Apr 13
       
      great tweet!
  • It’s not just that nominalization can sap the vitality of one’s speech or prose; it can also eliminate context and mask any sense of agency.
  • : nouns get verbed as often as verbs get nouned.
  • nebulous or fuzzy seem stable, mechanical and precisely defined
  • repudiating ambiguity and complexity.
  • priority to actions rather than to the people responsible for them.
  • t often they conceal power relationships and reduce our sense of what’s truly involved in a transaction.
  • instrument of manipulatio
  • instrument of manipulation,
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