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Does This Make Me Transhuman?
An acquaintance who was a mid-level IT manager likes to remind me, every time I say I resist technology, that...
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Scarcity and Course Design
I'm reading Clay Shirky's amazing new book Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age (have you downloaded it...
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Disloyalty?
According to this story from IHE, a provost lost her job after her President found out that she had applied...
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Berkeley's Uncommon Common Experience
I’ve been teaching an early summer graduate course in Corporate and Professional Ethics. As in all my courses, one of...
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The Year-Later Evaluation
Several alert readers sent me this piece from the Washington Post. It glosses a study conducted at the Air Force...
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Mothering at Mid-Career: Summer Jobs
The summer after my junior year of high school I got a summer job in a resort town in Maine...
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ScreenFlow + YouTube = Quick/Robust Feedback
I've become enamored with tools that allow us to have rich, non-text based, communications with our students. If these tools...
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Shut Up and Write
Kerry Ann Rockquemore rejects the idea that shame alone can help you finish projects and explains how different kinds of writing groups may be more effective.