Posted in Academia, Blogging, Education, Education and Society, Grad School on September 12, 2007 | 4 Comments »
It’s only Week 2 of the semester. Why do I feel like it’s Week 9, when it wouldn’t be so odd to feel exhausted, overwhelmed, and hopeless behind? Fortunately, I was speaking to a classmate who expressed the same feelings, so I’m not alone!
My GTD list of things to do *TODAY* is piling up, so…some [...]
Posted in Education, Education and Society, New York City, Sociology on September 10, 2007 | No Comments »
Fabio Rojas* reports in a recent post over at Orgtheory.net on the use of incentivizing strategies to enhance student performance in schools. These strategies range from the silly and the antic (the principal offers to dye his hair pink if average test scores increase) to the more serious and potentially costly. As Fabio points out, [...]
Posted in Education, Education and Society, Expertise, Institutional theory, Sociology on September 6, 2007 | No Comments »
Earlier in the year I was in a class on the sociology of expertise - a field that’s still poorly defined, I think, though I don’t want to say anything about that now. In the course of our discussions, I became interested in exploring the distinction between expertise and competence. What does it mean to [...]
Posted in Blogging, Education, Education and Society on September 2, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Over the past two weeks there’s been an ongoing debate between Matthew Tabor and David Warlick about the value of educational blogging. I finally caught up with their discussion, and started to offer my two cents on Matthew’s site before I realized that my reply was becoming inordinately long. As a result, I decided to [...]
Posted in Education and Society, Global Warming, Politics, Science and Technology on July 11, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I went to a talk yesterday given by Matthew Nisbet, a professor of communication at American University who maintains a really fascinating blog on public communication and discourse on science issues. Briefly, the talk was essentially about the politics and political discourse surrounding global warming, and some of the well-known controversies that have emerged around [...]
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