Unqualified Offerings

I haven’t gotten a lot of news the last couple weeks. How did Turkey’s shooting war with Israel turn out?

I don’t think I’ve written anything much about the Gulf Oil spill, because a) it’s depressing but only interesting if you’re not full up on bitter comedy, and I am; and b) actually there is no b. I think we’re living through America’s Chernobyl, the event where the country becomes outright pathetic in everyone else’s [...]

The Littlest Offering makes the case for year-round schooling, under which regime kids would not have time to IM thusly with their parents all afternoon:

2:51 PM TLO: we have nothing to eat at home and im starving
2:53 PM me: That is so sad!
To think, you will be dead the last day of school [...]

By Thoreau
It has become politically advantageous to have students from other campuses taking a few classes with us, and to have a few of our students take classes at other state campuses.  It doesn’t actually save any money, but it looks good because it demonstrates Collaborative Syergistic Integration of Cross Campus Efforts To Utilize Buzzword [...]

By Thoreau
The simplest way of deterring something like the Gulf spill from ever happening again is to take over every piece of BP that’s under US jurisdiction, fire every employee, confiscate all assets, sell everything that can be sold, and give the cash to the residents of affected coastal areas.
Libertarians are big on using the [...]

By Thoreau
Jon Stewart is on the same bandwagon as me. Clearly, the man is Part Of The Problem and has unrealistic expectations.
The graphic at 6:34 is priceless.

By Thoreau
I pretty much agree with Chad Orzel that a lot of this stuff about “digital natives” transforming learning is a bit over-hyped.  Don’t get me wrong, I use some online teaching tools in my classes and I plan to use more.  There’s a lot of good stuff out there  (and some chaff amongst the [...]