- Nov 2016
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zachwhalen.net zachwhalen.net
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Here’s what the photographer Bob Seidemann said about his vision for the album cover and the reason behind using such a young girl.
“I could not get my hands on the image until out of the mist a concept began to emerge. To symbolize the achievement of human creativity and its expression through technology a space ship was the material object. To carry this new spore into the universe, innocence would be the ideal bearer, a young girl, a girl as young as Shakespeare’s Juliet. The space ship would be the fruit of the tree of knowledge and the girl, the fruit of the tree of life.”
“The space ship could be made by Mick Milligan, a jeweler at the Royal College of Art. The girl was another matter. If she were too old it would be cheesecake, too young and it would be nothing. The beginning of the transition from girl to woman, that is what I was after. That temporal point, that singular flare of radiant innocence. Where is that girl?”
http://www.feelnumb.com/2011/07/17/the-young-girl-featured-on-the-blind-faith-album-cover/
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- Aug 2016
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www.dartmouth.edu www.dartmouth.edu
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This just shows that women are viewed as objects because the woman is having no voice. At first her marriage was arranged and now she's being kidnapped because some guy likes her.
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Is found by the police, who take him away to be buried.
How do the police not even know he's not actually dead? Is the power of his belief in his supposed death that strong that his body shuts down?
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Fourth suicide of Mr. Oldbuck.
Why is he committing suicide this time? His love returns his feelings. He just wants to be dramatic.
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Mr. Oldbuck believes himself dead,
How can he really believe himself dead? Is he so delusional that he tricks his brain into actually believing he's dead? If so, he has more problems than his love life.
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the sword passes below his arm.
I don't understand how he misses his body. Doesn't he realize that he should be in pain?
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He seeks to conquer the tender passion by study
I think it's interesting that he's trying to conquer his love by studying. Is he trying to understand the feeling? Or is he trying to be better than the feeling and not feel it anymore? And why does he think that he can study a feeling?
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- Jan 2016
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www.insidehighered.com www.insidehighered.com
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For their entire lives they’ve been told that grades “matter.”
This is so true. We are taught that grades matter and I have experienced where I take a class because I think it's going to be interesting but I can't enjoy the class because I'm worried about what grade I'm going to get.
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By defining that criteria, I gave students a clearer target to aim for.
This is so important to students because writing papers for class is hard. Coming up with a thesis and then justifying it is hard. Everybody struggles with it and if a teacher just critiques the entire paper, then it doesn't help the student write better papers. If the student knew what to develop better for their papers, they would write better.
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Sure, summaries lacked focus, were poorly organized, and had messy sentences, but the roots of these problems were clearly found in insufficient engagement with and understanding of the source text. Rather than explaining all those problems, I could zero in on that flawed reading process, and direct the student to our earlier work with understanding and breaking down arguments.
Can I say this is fantastic? Because it is. Sure students need help with organizing ideas and how to write better but I feel like most of those writing problems come out because students don't understand what they should even be writing the paper about so they can't articulate that on the paper. Students can be taught the technical aspects of writing a paper, but that doesn't help them actually write a better paper.
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“Proficient,” “Above Proficient,” and “Below Proficient”[1] much more of my commentary can go to diagnosing the problem in the student’s writing process and focusing the commentary where it might be most helpful.
I like those terms because as an English major, I write a lot of papers and to be graded with those terms gives me an idea of where my writing is more than getting a "B" will. It seems more helpful to me because getting feedback with one of those terms would be more encouraging.
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Contract grading seemed like a potentially useful tool in combating student anxiety over grades by putting control of the grade firmly in students’ hands.
This idea is fantastic because then students know how to get a good grade (that is really all we want) and from going through so much school, we know what makes a good assignment so we can fairly judge ourselves in what grade we deserve as we know the time and effort we put into that assignment.
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When utilizing numerical grades, I’ve grown more and more dismayed over how much of my evaluation time is spent justifying that number. In analyzing my own comments, nearly 80% of my words were spent explaining what was “wrong” with the student’s work. Even when I would consciously try to focus on “process” and provide forward-looking comments, I just ended up writing more and longer commentary that seemed even less useful to students who are thoroughly conditioned to only care about that number anyway.
I think that's interesting because as students growing up in the public school system, you don't care about the assignment you are doing, only the grade you will receive. Most of the time, students don't even look at the justification a teacher gives for a grade. We might look if we received a bad grade so that we know how to get a better one but that's it- we just want good grades; we don't care about the assignment.
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hackeducation.com hackeducation.com
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And that, if anything, is what’s magic about technology.
I think that is so important because technology has allowed people to connect with others who they never had the chance to connect with before and it's an enriching experience. Not only that but it lets us stay connected with others and to do things we never thought we could before.
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A “Domain of One’s Own” builds literacies so that the technology of the Web is distinguishable from magic, so those who understand how to manipulate its symbols are not high priests or magicians, so that carving out and operating your own little piece on the Web is manageable.
That is really cool because honestly, I use the Web but it mystifies me.
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the number of Internet-connected devices in US homes today now outnumbers the number of people in the country itself.
I do not doubt that at all- I personally have three such devices.
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The “Domain of One’s Own” initiative grows through the hard work of community-building and capacity-building
It seems like this helps people express their individual creativity which seems to be overlooked.
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Google X seeks to be an heir to the classic research labs, such as the Manhattan Project, which created the first atomic bomb, and Bletchley Park, where code breakers cracked German ciphers and gave birth to modern cryptography.
I suppose in theory that sounds good but having read that quote it doesn't leave me worry free.
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And it’s free!
It is and isn't free because if a website for like a business wants people to go to their webpage for their products, they have to pay Google to have their company show up on the first page or even pages depending on price, for certain words or else they could be on the 2,000th page and go out of business because of no sales.
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It highlights the importance of learner agency, learning in public, control over one’s digital identity, and the increasing importance of Web literacies.
Again, I think that Domain is something that will continue to grow because the concept of it makes students more independent in their learning but also teaches students valuable skills in this digital age.
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“Domain of One’s Own” offers a resistance to the silos of the traditional learning management system and of traditional academic disciplines.
That quote is fantastic but so important because I think students, at least most of all those in public schooling, hate school. The way that the educational system is makes learning not enjoyable so the concept of Domain is super important.
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“What the hell is ’Domain of One’s Own’?”
Another great question because before this class I had never heard of it!
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“What in ed-tech is exciting?
I think that is a good question.
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blog.medium.com blog.medium.com
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And if a student owns their own domain, as she moves from grade to grade and from school to school, all that information — their learning portfolio — can travel with them.
Having students go through even just all four years of high school with their own domain would be interesting because you could see how they have grown and changed.
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they do so in terms of digital citizenship: what students need to know in order to use technology “appropriately.” Schools routinely caution students about the things they post on social media, and the tenor of this conversation — particularly as translated by the media — is often tinged with fears that students will be seen “doing bad things” or “saying bad things” that will haunt them forever.While some scho
That has literally been the only thing teachers have told me about my digital presence and I think that having their own space would be so helpful to students to really be able to express themselves.
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One student uses her domain to showcase her artwork. Another chronicled her semester abroad. A third student has built a living CV, highlighting her academic research as well as her work experience.
All of that is so cool! I didn't even think to do any of those things!
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In developing this “personal cyberinfrastructure” through the Domain of One’s Own initiative, UMW gives students agency and control; they are the subjects of their learning, not the objects of education technology software.
This is really so important for students to make us enjoy what we are learning.
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the domain and all its content are the student’s to take with them. It is, after all, their education, their intellectual development, their work.
That is so wonderful because education for students is just making sure we pass our classes and get our degree and then get a job. Having education be more about ourselves than pushing us into the "adult" world is a great idea because it would make students be more interested in learning.
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The Domains initiative enables student to build the contemporary version of what Virginia Woolf in 1929 famously demanded in A Room of One’s Own — the necessity of a personal place to write.
That's so interesting!
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But almost all arguments about student privacy, whether those calling for more restrictions or fewer, fail to give students themselves a voice, let alone some assistance in deciding what to share online. Students have little agency when it comes to education technology — much like they have little agency in education itself.
This quote is wonderful because it is so true.
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These legislative efforts stress the need to protect students when they’re online, safeguarding their data from advertisers as well as from unscrupulous people and companies.
I understand that because I feel students are online the most out of any occupation but legislative efforts are used in favor of placing restrictions on people. So while better security would be great, legislative efforts are not the way to go.
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