Historical Archives
I’m getting all my good ideas from Dean Dad lately. Yesterday he writes about golf serving as a generational boundary. The comments are especially good and I’d recommend reading this one from Eyebrows McGee. He gets at some of the complexities behind Dean Dad’s discomfort with “Of course, there’ll be golf.” It’s about jobs, economics,…
Dean Dad comments on the IHE article from yesterday about studies showing that academics have fewer kids than other professionals. Dean Dad asks specifically how we make this work. Honestly, it’s gotten easier as the kids have gotten older, but it’s still hard. I especially feel guilty that I can’t be here when my kids…
Even though I’ve only been playing WoW for a few months, I’ve been engaged in many other games since the advent of Pong (so for a long time). Once I jumped into the field of writing, I’ve long thought of games as text (in the same way that films and tv shows are text). But…
One of the things I’ve been wrestling with this week is figuring out a way to mark off some time for everything I want and need to do–and still feel like I can kick back with a beer on the weekends. Some of this work will have to wait until I return on Tuesday because…
Leslie has a great post up about academics and 40-hour weeks. There’s no mention of Larry Summers, but I hear echoes of him in some of the posts she references. There’s a little bit of “you have to work more than 40 hours to be competitive” and “the kinds of jobs where 40 hours is…
On the same day as a report comes out that educators should harness txting to teach kids to write comes this post about how awful writing is on the Internet. Admittedly, some of the text quote in that second article is pretty difficult to understand. I suspect that the most difficult one is from a…
Multiple FA Channels Originally uploaded by lorda. During ELI, Intellagirl showed a WoW screen filled with lots of information and proclaimed that this is what many of your students are used to–viewing multiple channels at once. This picture is from my computer during Barbara Sawhill’s talk at Faculty Academy. I have the Ustream page and…
The whole concept of intellectual has been a mainstay of my life since at least my sophomore year in college. Before that, I didn’t really think about it much, caught as I was in the tug-of-war between being popular and being smart. In high school, I abandoned my studies to drink and date, but while…
I know it’s been forever since I’ve blogged and the title is some indication of where I’ve been, but not all. Last week was a busy week in the Geeky household. I traveled. Mr. Geeky traveled. I’m taking a week off this week, so there were lots of loose ends to tie up. I’m using…
Yesterday, I had the great pleasure of visiting the Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia. I’ve been following the development and progress of this schools via its principal, Chris Lehmann’s blog. I’m not a K-12 educator, but I like to frequently remind myself and others, that the students currently going through K-12 will eventually be our…
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