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J.Randolph Radney

Six Reasons Why I'm Not On Facebook, By Wired UK's Editor | Epicenter | Wired... - 2 views

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    Let's think about Facebook.
J.Randolph Radney

Inside Job - Movie Website for the Documentary Film - 0 views

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    Here is an interesting link to a movie trailer claiming that the 2008 financial meltdown was avoidable. Can you find other links to sources that analyze the financial situation of that time?
J.Randolph Radney

Gordon Campbell's most mysterious move - The Globe and Mail - 0 views

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    What argument is being made here? How strong do you think it is?
J.Randolph Radney

Complex ideas can't always be made simple - The Globe and Mail - 0 views

  • current advanced studies in the humanities can be more difficult to explain than science is, no matter how complex the science.
  • current advanced studies in the humanities can be more difficult to explain than science is, no matter how complex the science.
J.Randolph Radney

Lingua Franca - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

  • All Lawyers Are Not Liars: True or False?
J.Randolph Radney

After student complaints, Utah professor denied job | Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

  • Maranville followed the Socratic teaching style and described his way of teaching as "engaged learning," according to court documents. Those records describe teaching approaches designed to go beyond lectures. He would ask questions to stimulate discussion. He divided his students into teams and gave them assignments outside class.
  • Supporters of the method see it as "a process by which you try to make the best logical argument and you focus on process as much as content,” Apple said. But he added that not that many faculty members use it these days. "The reason for its unpopularity sometimes is because we are in a test-based education system. Students can be increasingly impatient where the answer is not clear and when the professor is not giving it to them immediately."
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    What are the strengths and weaknesses of education based upon Socratic questioning?
J.Randolph Radney

Why Johnny Can't Search - a Response - 0 views

  • Pan grimly concluded that students aren't assessing information sources on their own merit - they're putting too much trust in machine.
  • In a recent experiment at Northwestern, when 102 undergraduates were asked to do some research online, none went to the trouble of checking the author's credentials. In 1955, we wondered why Johnny can't read. Today the question is why can't Johnny search?
  • It would seem that the demands of the information age would put a premium on teaching critical thinking skills. But the test regime leaves little time in the school day for that. Teaching information literacy is everyone's (and no one's) responsibility in school. (And I fear most of the librarians who were "fighting that good fight" didn't survive the latest round of budget cuts.)
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  • We live in an information age that puts a premium on the ability to find, decode, evaluate, store and communicate information. Today's student should be in training to become a critically-thinking citizen and the best response schools can come up with is to force-feed students in sanitized information feedlots.
J.Randolph Radney

To Fight Grade Inflation in the Humanities, Add Context - Commentary - The Chronicle of... - 0 views

  • Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa’s well-known study, Academically Adrift, shows that the students who gained in critical-thinking skills were those in classes where they were asked to read a lot and write a lot—and in which they believed their professors had high expectations for their work. These intensive reading-and-writing classes are the bread and butter of humanistic scholarship, particularly if we also communicate high expectations.
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