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Adam Bohannon

Intel® Teach Program - 0 views

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    Maggie@Diigo: An educational group ict.org just wrote us and informed us that they are doing training on Diigo.

    "The program that we are involved in is called the Intel® Teach Program-Diigo is specifically referenced and used in the Intel Teach Essentials Course. You can find out more about the program at www.intel.com/education/teach . I may have time to preview your next release and am one of your biggest fans."
Adam Bohannon

The American Scholar - The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - By William Deresiewicz - 0 views

  • The liberal arts university is becoming the corporate university, its center of gravity shifting to technical fields where scholarly expertise can be parlayed into lucrative business opportunities.
Adam Bohannon

apophenia: Pew on teen social media practices (with interesting bits on class) - 0 views

  • I wasn't surprised by most of their findings, but one of them did make me raise my eyebrows: Teens from lower-income are more likely to blog. Because of how Pew collects data, they cannot answer the question "why?" when they find such correlations, but I figured that my qualitative data might provide some insight and so I went back through my data. When asked about blogging, most of my MySpace-dominant users would immediately talk about the blogs that they kept on MySpace while my Facebook-dominant teens would talk about how Xanga was "so middle school" and that "everyone stopped" because "it just felt really weird writing about my day to people that I didn't even care about." And then it clicked. As I pointed out last summer and Eszter saw in her survey, the MySpace/Facebook split is correlated with socio-economic status. Because MySpace supports blogging and Facebook does not and because many of the teens who were once on Xanga are now using one of the SNSs, it makes sense that teens from lower-income households are more likely to blog now. They are blogging on MySpace. Now, that outta be interesting when these kids hit college where blogging is used as an educational tool.
Kevin Champion

NPR: Americans Skip a Page When It Comes to Reading - 0 views

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      I bet developmental psychology a la Ken Wilber could offer some interesting explanations here.
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      Hmm... wonder if Marshall McLuhan's "hot" and "cold" media has anything to do with this.
Kevin Champion

Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology - A Group Blog » Are our best... - 0 views

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      While I have not gone to grad school, and thus I am not an authority on the matter, one very large motivation for not going is something like this fear. I do not want to put myself in a situation where I am forced to study, read, and write about things that are of little importance to me. I would much rather pursue my own interests. Thus far, I have found this approach to be rather prolific, reading a book a week and working on numerous projects. I also find it very interesting how defensive these people are in the comments to this post. They seem to disagree whole-heartedly. This raises flags for me, flags of ignorance. Perhaps they are purposefully looking the other way. What do you think?
  • It seems that while most faculty (and, I would add, many students) assume that people drop out because they aren’t up to snuff, it may in fact be that the best students are finding that it is graduate school which isn’t up to snuff. Especially women.
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