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Jonathan Becker

Against the Ampersand: Hyperlink Politics for the Future - DML Central - 0 views

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    "Very much like the hyphen that Butler and Spivak question, the hyperlink forms new connections, informs unexpected encounters, and formulates narratives and metaphors where none might have existed."
Tom Woodward

Letter: What We've Learned - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    "It's no accident that many of the most-read New York Times articles of the last few years have been complex takes on serious subjects in a form other than a traditional article: an explainer of the Ebola crisis, a photo essay on aging, a video on ISIS and, from us, the rent-vs.-buy calculator, a graphic on nonemployed men, a map on poverty and an interactive on generational politics."
Enoch Hale

Higher education for a hyper-connected world - University World News - 1 views

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    "In many respects the world has become a global knowledge society of interconnected and interdependent human activity that shares increasingly common ways to communicate and interact politically, economically and socially. Yet, at the same time, the world continues to be highly diverse in these areas as well as linguistically and culturally. "
anonymous

Blue Feed, Red Feed - WSJ.com - 0 views

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    Example of how algorithms feed information bubbles, likely contributing to divisiveness.
sanamuah

'No Pineapple Left Behind' and the politics of American education - 2 views

  • In Pineapple, you play the role of a principal in charge of a school and your ultimate goal is to earn as much funding as possible. To do that, you need to ensure it produces the highest standardized test scores throughout a dozen different scenarios. By dehumanizing kids and turning them into pineapples (read: statistics) that makes it easier because "pineapples," as they exist here, excel at testing and nothing else.
anonymous

Annotated transcript: The Aug. 6 GOP debate - The Washington Post - 2 views

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    Annotated debate transcript on WaPo
Yin Wah Kreher

Why I Am Teaching a Course Called "Wasting Time on the Internet" - The New Yorker - 0 views

  • What I’ve learned from these years in the classroom is that no matter what we do, we can’t help but express ourselves. Similarly, I have no doubt that the students in “Wasting Time on the Internet” will use Web surfing as a form of self-expression. Every click is indicative of who we are: indicative of our likes, our dislikes, our emotions, our politics, our world view.
Jonathan Becker

Hanover teachers first to complete new VCU online teaching program - Richmond Times-Dis... - 0 views

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    Some good publicity for an online certificate program, a new addition to our online program offerings.
Jonathan Becker

The Supreme Court's devotees go DIY - 0 views

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    GREAT examples of the participatory culture of the Web as applied to a serious institution, the #SCOTUS
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