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Tag Archives: entertainment
NYT plea for “Lecture me. Really.”
A friend sent me the following link about the value of lectures in the humanities. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/18/opinion/sunday/lecture-me-really.html My response follows. ———————————– I get the point, and I do agree that lectures can be good in certain contexts, but the professor who … Continue reading
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Would that….
this article had come out 25 or 30 years ago…. http://smartblogs.com/education/2013/03/06/teaching-the-last-backpack-generation/ It’s both gratifying and annoying to see that what I’ve been doing in some way for the last at least 25 years, probably my whole career, but I may … Continue reading
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Sigh
This story is not necessarily worth a post, but it is a humorous lesson in how different people see the same set of circumstances/event in different ways: Senior: “I only read the first chapter in [some course] last semester.” Me: … Continue reading
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A little comic relief
The two passages below are vocab quizzes from two of my students. The control of tone is especially fine, I think, since although there are some obvious exaggerations, you can’t always be sure what is at least semi-serious and what … Continue reading
Self-reliance
After having listened to 10th and 11th graders running for student council for next year, I am struck by two things. The first is that as a whole, they tend to be more creative without being offensive than they used … Continue reading →