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  1. Nov 2016
    1. eight elements of digital literacies, I have just mentioned the civic, critical, creative, and communicative. The other four are cultural, cognitive, constructive, and confidence. This last one is important and takes time to build.

      These elements can really help develop the understanding of what literacy can be and how that can help a reader/writer grow through their work. It is not absurd that confidence needs to be worked on to gain better literacy skills. The more confidence a writer has the more they can portray their intelligence in every words they provide their reader.

  2. Oct 2016
    1. All of the large lectures in my department are accompanied by discussion sections and, for me, the clue of what a discussion section for is in the name. But, running good discussions requires skill and experience, so one thing we need to think about when we think about improving instruction is how to equip TAs with those skills which, surprisingly often, they have not had the opportunity to observe in practice during their own undergraduate experience and which, typically, they have not practiced before becoming a TA.

      Having large group discussions is something that needs skills and preparation. The topic it self needs to be adequately introduced to the group to reduce the amount of confusion and boredom students might have during the class discussion itself.

  3. Sep 2016
    1. To Trevelyan, spelling it out in more detail, social history encompassed the human as well as the economic relations of different classes, the character of family and household life, the conditions of labour and leisure, the attitude of man towards nature, and the cumulative influence of all these subjects on culture, including religion, architecture, literature, music, learning and thought.

      Cannadine brings up the controversial idea of what social history is according to Trevelyn's book on the topic. It is said to be about society and how the human impacted it but some say the social change also comes from many other factors as well.

    1. At colleges and universities across the nation, the Carnegie Unit became more commonly referred to as the credit hour. The common semester-long class became three credit hours. The average four-year degree was earned after completing 120 credit hours. Time and process were fixed, and outcomes of schooling were variable. All students were expected to learn the same things in the same period of time. The Carnegie Unit provided the architecture to make this system work.

      It would be difficult for everyone to learn the same thing in the same exact time as someone else while having different types of learning strategies for themselves. Some people are visual learners, others are auditory learners, others are experimental learners. There is no specific way any one person can accommodate themselves to due to a time management concept that has slowly become obsolete.

    2. Education at all levels is becoming more individualized, as students learn different subjects at different rates and learn best using different methods of instruction.

      Student tend to learn at different levels in different amount of time. This changes the strategy the Carnegie unit time frame. Indicating that it has controversial means.

  4. Aug 2016
    1. And, presumably, it was the first great intellectual base: the leading sociologists at Chicago transformed sociology into an empirical science, finally turning “sociology from social philosophy toward empirical research.”[4]

      It must be hard to realize that your beliefs are wrong. Julian, the author, must've felt a great amount of disappointment after realizing that the world of sociology he knew was based off of a dishonest foundation. But, in figuring this out he can know research in a way new to the sociological world with deeper research of his own (empirical research = observation & experience).

    2. And, presumably, it was the first great intellectual base: the leading sociologists at Chicago transformed sociology into an empirical science, finally turning “sociology from social philosophy toward empirical research.”[4]

      It must be hard acknowledging the fact that everything you know is wrong. Julian, the author, must've felt a great amount of disappointment after realizing that the facts he knew about sociology was based off of a dishonest foundation created.