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  1. Mar 2021
    1. Stephen Jay Gould’s The Flamingo’s Smile (1985). Great title. I click it and perform the various contortions required to read a Google Books preview on my phone. Gould is telling a story I’ve heard before, about Saartjie Baartman, also known as the Hottentot Venus, a Khoikhoi woman who was exhibited at “freak shows” across nineteenth-century Europe because of her buttocks and breasts.

      Sarah Baartman (Afrikaans: [ˈsɑːra ˈbɑːrtman]; also spelled Sara, sometimes in the diminutive form Saartje ([ˈsɑːrtʃi]), or Saartjie and Bartman, Bartmann; c.1775 – 29 December 1815)[1][2]:184 was the best known of at least two[3] South African Khoikhoi women who, due to the European objectification of their buttocks, were exhibited as freak show attractions in 19th-century Europe under the name Hottentot Venus—"Hottentot" was the name for the Khoi people, now considered an offensive term,[4] and "Venus" referred to the Roman goddess of love and fertility.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Baartman

      scientific racism

      Julien-Joseph Virey used Sarah Baartman's published image to validate racial typologies. In his essay "Dictionnaire des sciences medicales" (Dictionary of medical sciences), he summarizes the true nature of the black female within the framework of accepted medical discourse. Virey focused on identifying her sexual organs as more developed and distinct in comparison to white female organs. All of his theories regarding sexual primitivism are influenced and supported by the anatomical studies and illustrations of Sarah Baartman which were created by Georges Cuvier.[33] In cartoons and drawings Baartman's features were often exaggerated to highlight her difference from European females.

    2. afer

      Āfer (feminine Āfra, neuter Āfrum); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er)

      from Africa (the region of modern-day Tunisia)

    3. Systema Naturae (1735)

      Systema Naturae (originally in Latin written Systema Naturæ with the ligature æ) is one of the major works of the Swedish botanist, zoologist and physician Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778) and introduced the Linnaean taxonomy. Although the system, now known as binomial nomenclature, was partially developed by the Bauhin brothers, Gaspard and Johann, 200 years earlier,[2] Linnaeus was first to use it consistently throughout his book. The first edition was published in 1735. The full title of the 10th edition (1758), which was the most important one, was Systema naturæ per regna tria naturæ, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis or translated: "System of nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera and species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places".

      The tenth edition of this book (1758) is considered the starting point of zoological nomenclature.[3] In 1766–1768 Linnaeus published the much enhanced 12th edition, the last under his authorship

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systema_Naturae

    1. Dr. Lucey said the experts would need to produce a breakthrough in order to demonstrate credibility.

      So they either have to be extremely harsh on china or find a "breakthrough" to retain believability?

    2. Chinese officials heavily promoted the idea that the virus came from abroad at the news conference on Tuesday, arguing that the search for the origin of the virus should focus on places outside China.

      https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-circulated-europe-china-before-wuhan-outbreak-2020-12

      “The numbers are not so important. What is important is that we don’t really know how reliable serology testing is to detect antibodies for SARS-CoV-2 more than a year after infection,” Dr. Embarek said. Another WHO researcher, microbiologist Fabian Leendertz, said the probability of finding antibodies that late would be low.

      Marion Koopmans, a Dutch virologist on the WHO team, echoed that concern. “From what we know about serology, out of 92 cases you would at least have some positives,” she said. “Antibodies do clear. The levels go down, but less so in cases of severe infection.”

      If the 90 cases included Covid-19 infections, it could help explain suspected coronavirus cases that researchers believe occurred in Europe and possibly the U.S. in November and December 2019.

      In a recent study, Italian researchers found evidence of Covid-19 infection in a 4-year-old boy from the Milan area who was treated for respiratory symptoms and vomiting on Nov. 30, 2019. Researchers found RNA exactly matching part of the Covid-19 virus while retrospectively testing a respiratory specimen from the boy, along with specimens from other patients.

      There might also have been a few cases of Covid-19 in the U.S. as early as in December 2019, weeks ahead of the first confirmed U.S. case on Jan. 19, 2020.

      https://www.wsj.com/articles/possible-early-covid-19-cases-in-china-emerge-during-who-mission-11612996225?reflink=desktopwebshare_twitter

    3. This theory is different from a widely discredited one pushed by some Republicans in the United States, which claimed that a lab in China had manufactured the virus for use as a bio-weapon.

      WOW, A FUCKING DISTINCTION WITHOUT A DIFFERENCE.

    4. Dr. Ben Embarek said it was “extremely unlikely” that the virus might have leaked accidentally from a laboratory studying bat coronaviruses in Wuhan.

      This was literally a conspiracy theorist repeated by the likes of Marco Rubio and Tom Cotton at the start of the pandemic and was debunked or its validity rescinded multiple times.

    5. One visit is not enough time to do a thorough investigation,” he said. “They’re doing all the work within the parameters set by the Chinese government.”

      we didn't get the result we wanted, so we need to try and try again

    6. Some scientists worry that shifting attention to other countries could cause the investigation to lose its focus

      which scientists? who is saying this? Why would a scientist not want to cover every option/avenue?

    7. the experts pledged to investigate reports that the virus might have been present outside China months before the outbreak in Wuhan in late 2019, a longstanding demand of Chinese officials.

      There were some reports mid-2020 that claimed it was in europe much earlier than reported, so why is this so controversial?

    8. an inquiry could draw attention to the government’s early missteps in handling the outbreak

      Honestly, I find it amazing that they managed to control their outbreak and still feel embarrassed at the initial response.

    1. “We’ve got real concerns about the methodology and the process that went into that report, including the fact that the government in Beijing apparently helped to write it,” Mr. Blinken said in an interview that aired Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

      As opposed to hoping internal and external pressure by your government made them change the report?

    2. The Biden administration has expressed concern over the Chinese government’s role in drafting a forthcoming World Health Organization report about the source of the coronavirus pandemic.

      Why?

    1. The purpose of Makarenko’s pedagogy of the collective was to instil a sense of community and duty to each other, of humility and mutual respect, of interdependence and communal self-governance. In short, it was itself a revolution against the arrogance and individualism that so characterises capitalist ideology. From this perspective it becomes clearer why Makarenko’s counter-hegemonic methods have gone largely unacknowledged in the Western world.

      Why do communities struggle with humility and mutual respect and self-governance? In the western individualistic hegemon.

    2. Because men are historical beings, incomplete and conscious of being incomplete, revolution is as natural and permanent a human dimension as education. Only a mechanistic mentality holds that education can cease at a certain point, or that revolution can be halted when it attains power. To be authentic, revolution must be a continuous event. Otherwise it will cease to be revolution, and will become sclerotic bureaucracy.9Paulo Freire, The Politics of Education: Culture, Power, and Liberation, (Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1985), 89.

      Trotsky's idea of permanent revolution

    3. Maxim Gorky

      Alexei Maximovich Peshkov (Russian: Алексе́й Макси́мович Пешко́в or Пе́шков;[1] 28 March [O.S. 16 March] 1868 – 18 June 1936), primarily known as Maxim Gorky (Russian: Макси́м Го́рький), was a Russian and Soviet writer, a founder of the socialist realism literary method, and a political activist.[2] He was also a five-time nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature.[3] Prior to his renown as an author, he frequently changed jobs and roamed across the Russian Empire; these experiences would later influence his writing. Gorky's most famous works were The Lower Depths (1902), Twenty-six Men and a Girl (1899), The Song of the Stormy Petrel (1901), My Childhood (1913–1914), Mother (1906), Summerfolk (1904) and Children of the Sun (1905). He had associations with fellow Russian writers Leo Tolstoy and Anton Chekhov; Gorky would later mention them in his memoirs.

      Gorky was active in the emerging Marxist communist movement. He publicly opposed the Tsarist regime, and for a time closely associated himself with Vladimir Lenin and Alexander Bogdanov's Bolshevik wing of the party. For a significant part of his life, he was exiled from Russia and later the Soviet Union. In 1932, he returned to the USSR on Joseph Stalin's personal invitation and lived there until his death in June 1936.

      wikipedia

    1. “I don’t have a lot of friends in real life who actually read,” Ms. Juan said. But she and Ms. Velez both live in the Los Angeles area, and they’ve talked about maybe, once it’s safe, talking books in person. “I’m always like, when the pandemic is over and both of us get vaccinated,” Ms. Juan said, “I’ll come see you.”

      One of the things I found really exciting in Tiktok is people reading books outloud!

    1. Before the pandemic, when she could afford a babysitter, Kate Baer would write from a Panera Bread near her home in Hummelstown

      Studying for my graduate program, it was Starbucks down the street.

    1. hey felt that annotation did increase their confidence and did increase their sense of belonging in class which felt really exciting but that has kind of uh opene

      this is something that has to be reciprocated by the instructor but just having the ability to chat in the margins with your classmates ought to be excellent!

    1. Again and again, his daughters had begged him to “do something” about his books before he died. Meaning, We can’t take them. If he understood that, he did nothing about it, and sorting out his library became sadly indistinguishable from sorting out his pictures or his CDs or his shirts.

      There's something to be said about leaving the living something to do after the deceased has passed away. One of the reasons, I adore writing, annotating, drawing, journaling, taking pictures. I want my kids to see my presence in what I left behind.

    2. The answer was sympathetic and dismaying. There used to be twelve secondhand bookshops in Kingston, the bookseller told me, and now there are four: “We have the storage space but no money. The shop around the corner has the money to buy books but no space. This summer, at least three big private collections have come onto the market. So I’m afraid it’s just not worth it for me to come out to a house and look at four thousand books.”

      What a travesty.

    3. Susan Sontag once said to me that her essays were more intelligent than she was, because she worked so hard at them, and expanded into them over several months of writing.

      trueeeee

  2. Feb 2021
    1. what we identify as essential characteristics of design in educa-tional technology, as represented in the field's founda-tional literature.

      Design and educational technology and its essential characteristics.

    2. Kennon M. Smith Elizabeth Boling

      As a side note, Dr. Smith is an architect who did her doctoral degree in IDT and Prof. Boling is a graphic designer who worked at Apple designing all their fancy devices (she's also our alumni at TTU!). Prof. Boling is one of the gurus in design within our field so it will be nice for you to get to know her more by finding her work.

      From Dr. S

    Annotators

    1. Princeton classicist, published an op-ed in the online magazine Quillette in which he referred to the Black Justice League, a student group, as a “terrorist organization” and warned that certain proposals in the faculty letter would “lead to civil war on campus.”

      BROOOO, LMAOOOO

    2. Padilla turned his attention to arenas beyond classics. He and his co-authors — the astrophysicist Jenny Greene, the literary theorist Andrew Cole and the poet Tracy K. Smith — began writing their open letter to Princeton with 48 proposals for reform.

      Gotta check it out

    3. He compares the experience to a scene in one of Frederick Douglass’s autobiographies, when Mr. Auld, Douglass’s owner in Baltimore, chastises his wife for helping Douglass learn to read: “ ‘Now,’ said he, ‘if you teach that nigger (speaking of myself) how to read, there would be no keeping him. It would forever unfit him to be a slave.’” In that moment, Douglass says he understood that literacy was what separated white men from Black — “a new and special revelation, explaining dark and mysterious things.” “I would at times feel that learning to read had been a curse rather than a blessing,” Douglass writes. “It had given me a view of my wretched condition, without the remedy.” Learning the secret only deepened his sense of exclusion.

      how upsetting we don't read HIM in high school.

    4. Historians stress that such ideas cannot be separated from the discourses of nationalism, colorism and progress that were taking shape during the modern colonial period, as Europeans came into contact with other peoples and their traditions. “The whiter the body is, the more beautiful it is,” Winkelmann wrote.

      whoop there it is.

    5. One of the most influential was Pericles’ funeral oration over the graves of the Athenian war dead in 431 B.C., recorded by Thucydides, in which the statesman praises his “glorious” city for ensuring “equal justice to all.” “Our government does not copy our neighbors’,” he says, “but is an example to them. It is true that we are called a democracy, for the administration is in the hands of the many and not of the few.”

      This is just Reagan, "Shiny city upon a hill".

    6. Anthony Grafton, the great Renaissance scholar, put it this way in his preface to “The Classical Tradition”: “An exhaustive exposition of the ways in which the world has defined itself with regard to Greco-Roman antiquity would be nothing less than a comprehensive history of the world.”

      how fucking self-centered to ignore the Middle East and Eastern traditions.

    7. “This was definitely back in the day when the students didn’t even take notes,” one student said as she sat down. “Like, ‘My dad’s going to give me a job.’”

      they also...probably paid attention

    8. Frantz Fanon, Orlando Patterson and others working in the traditions of Afro-pessimism and psychoanalysis, Caribbean and Black studies.

      holy salami this guy is a commie

    9. They have noted that in fifth-century-B.C. Athens, which has been celebrated as the birthplace of democracy, participation in politics was restricted to male citizens; thousands of enslaved people worked and died in silver mines south of the city, and custom dictated that upper-class women could not leave the house unless they were veiled and accompanied by a male relative.

      Well the people celebrating Athens as birthplace of democracy, might be aware of this and don't care. They are white supremacist, fascists after all. No sense in owning them with facts and logics.

    1. References Garrison, D. Randy, Terry Anderson, and Walter Archer. “Critical inquiry in a text-based environment: Computer conferencing in higher education.” The internet and higher education 2, no. 2-3 (1999): 87-105. Orlov, George, Douglas McKee, James Berry, Austin Boyle, Thomas DiCiccio, Tyler Ransom, Alex Rees-Jones, and Jörg Stoye. “Learning During the COVID-19 Pandemic: It Is Not Who You Teach, but How You Teach.” NBER Working Paper 28022 (2020). Rienties, Bart, and Bethany Alden Rivers. “Measuring and understanding learner emotions: Evidence and prospects.” Learning Analytics Review 1, no. 1 (2014): 1-27.

      yay more reading references

    2. design a book group, consider goals, pedagogy, and disciplinary practice.
      • goals :: learning outcomes
      • pedagogy :: teaching strategies
      • disciplinary practice :: concept learning
    3. Reading is emotional when books affirm our challenges, disrupt our identities, or foster empathy; it is social when we engage our voice and respond to other readers; it is intellectual when we dissect the author’s rhetorical techniques or analyze how issues presented in books play out in society. One page at a time, a well-chosen book can touch on these aspects of engagement, highlighting the value of book groups.

      Yes yes yes yessss

    4. I can’t help but be reminded of my weekly get-togethers with my colleagues, virtually and sometimes in person, socially distancing in our backyards. With no structure for our gatherings or preconceived ideas of how it should be, yet with our shared disciplinary knowledge, we talked freely about what mattered to us: effective teaching.

      AAAHHH SO JEALOUS

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  4. Jan 2021
    1. Select a few theories a week and read a little bit about them, make your way from the more well known to the least known.

      So Gagne, Bandura, Piaget, etc would be a good way to start.

      Book on learning theory is coming to me.

  5. Dec 2020
    1. EDIT 5316Foundations of Instructional TechnologyEDIT 5317Instructional Design FoundationsEDIT 5325Planning and Developing Instructional MediaEDIT 5370Foundations of Distance Education

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  6. Sep 2020
    1. For Robinson, racial capitalism describes how “the development, organization, and expansion of capitalist society pursued essentially racial directions,” as did social ideology and political practice.

      How does this tie with whiteness as property. Speaking of which, I gotta finish that article!

    2. in the convening of the October 2017 Race and Capitalism: Global Territories, Transnational Histories symposium at the University of California, Los Angeles; and in Boston Review‘s Winter 2017 forum, “To Remake the World: Slavery, Racial, Capitalism, and Justice,” which featured writings from historians, political scientists, and Africana Studies scholars

      gotta get me access to their writings or recordings!

    3. a conceptual framework to understand the mutually constitutive nature of racialization and capitalist exploitation, inter alia, on a global scale, in specific localities, in discrete historical moments, in the entrenchment of the carceral state, and in the era of neoliberalization and permanent war.
    1. Check out the doc.drop version


      Graduate Writing Center

      Up to 3, one-on-one writing consultations Fall Hours:

      • M-TH 10:00 am to 7:00 pm,
      • F 10:00am- 2pm

      Writing Groups and Thesis and Dissertation bootcamps.


      Maintaining Productive Writing Practices Workshop

      Workshop Goals

      • Identify characteristics of productive practices
      • Grow awareness of our writing process and practices.
      • Strategies for setting goals, managing time, overcoming setbacks, and manage productivity.
      • Consider strategies for maintaining productive writing practices.

      mindful/reflect on what does and doesn't.

      in academia you write with a goal in mind.

      process-oriented, helpful to view the big picture, and know what steps are in the process.

      consistent and sustainable, if it's not sustainable it can't be consistent.

      what other characteristics?

      Collaborative. Get a second pair of eyes!


      Difficult and distracting times:


      Writing Reflection:

      A1: I try to be organized and thorough but it definitely feels like slow going, and there are distractions everywhere. My writing process has been writing a rough draft in notion coming from the annotations in hypothesi.s. I have attempted to make thorough organization of vocabulary definitions or concepts, a way to streamline the process


      A2: I feel like for the most part, they get the job done, but I sometimes struggle to get two to three sentences out in a row. And the distractions constantly pull me away from the writing.


      A3: I hope to learn about different strategies or ways to blockade my attention from constant phone notifications.


      Others

      Crunch time and missed deadlines are an issue.

      Preliminary outlines is an effective strat.

      Focus or lack thereof is a big issue.


      Mindfulness in Writing

      Think about your writing process and look at ways to change them so they work for you — I have been doing this recently, not just with writing but with reading.

      Hey I've been discussing my writing with faculty and colleagues to improve my writing! That's wild.


      Goal Setting

      Prioritize your project list. Budget time for writing, revision, regular breaks and account for unforeseen setbacks.

      • you have to make time for breaks because you have a wife and kid.
      • Writing usually (true!) take longer than we anticipate.
      • App recommendation: 2do, Due, and Remember the Mik | For me: Notion update notifications, iOS Reminders App, Google Calendar, TODAY habit (✅)

      Reflection: Right now, I only struggled with synthesis paper but that's partly because I had a lot of readings to include. My biggest problem right now is transferring what I've read, into my own words, not just my own words, but in a structured and effective way (at least in my own view).

      I think I am also doubting my own understanding of the assignments and causing myself more trouble. The biggest challenge is overwriting, and therefore having to clean up and organize my writing at the end.


      Goals

      Eisenhower Decision Matrix

      • Important and urgent
      • Important but not urgent
      • Not important but urgent
      • Not important and not urgent

      Goal setting

      Embrace mini-sessions

      • pomodoro technique write for 25 mins, break for 5
      • write now, revise and edit later
      • divide projects into manageable sections
      • commit to at least three hours per week.

      be flexible | establish good habits


      Cut back distractions

      • Avoid unneeded internet time and put away your cellphone.

      Set this up in notion as a Koban table.

      I think unless the matrix is easy to set up, you might want to be mindful of not overcomplicating the process and have that take away from your writing.


      Consistency in Writing

      Daily writing practice:

      touch a writing project once a day, keep your hand moving, gradual progress.

      Hold yourself accountable

      virtual writing groups or writing partners | reflection - I have been doing this with Dr. Dagmar, my wife. But I'd love to get a writing group fo colleagues.

      Schedule time for writing and everything else

      Protect your writing time. Treat the writing time as sacred. Do not use this time to complete other tasks.


      Use Technology that supports your writing

      Study music on youtube Coffivity (ambient noise for writing) Rescue time (tracks how you spend time online) Google sheets for project management.

      reflection: I am using Notion for centralizing all of my writing work and resources.


      Environment

      Consider your workspace.

      • Find or designate a spot to work on writing. Create a space where you can be most productive, I keep trying to make the office productive but he keeps barging in there.

      Determine your working style

      • When are you most productive (I'd say the evening, might need to bump it up to the afternoon). What environment do you need to work successfully: peace and quiet.

      Lean on community

      • I have been leaning on Dr. Dagmar for this aspect, but I'd love to meet someone in the writing center!

      Know when to log off

      • Take a break! Find ways to relax and do some physical exercise and breathing exercises + mental health and guided meditation.

      GOOD QUESTION: Prioritizing reading vs. writing.

      Schedule reading time as much as writing time. Budget time for reading completion. Set a goal of time and pages read.

    1. Decades of social annotation research, but no tool has been researched and used as extensively as hypothes.is.

      research on how students perceive and value the tools for social annotations.

      they like using social annotations, helps to see other people's perspectives, share resources, and can also contribute productively to a sense of community.

      Another body on language learning, and reading.

      Also research on how to make meaning and knowledge construction.

      Open transcript

      • Remi Kalir

      Left off at 45:57

    2. related twitter conversation last week about what makes for really effective online discussion and particularly in the context of things like conventional 00:45:09 learning management system discussion boards and people talked a lot about aspects of access and equity who participates whose voices are welcome whose voices may be hidden even in asynchronous online discussion

      Does anybody have a link to this twitter discussion?

    3. this is where reading expert annotation actually is very productive for learning it may also be productive in a civic space but there is an important difference between someone participating in social annotation and someone who has access to expert annotation of a text

      this is a type of activity that the instructor as the expert, could provide context and information on parts of the book and help the students with challenging topics and concept.s

    4. existed you know in print books you know in in you know in victorian england you know people would write in books and then pass them along to their neighbors as a way of sharing their thoughts with each other and that was of course happening hundreds of years ago

      Amanda Licastro talked about this on her AnnotateED presentation in 2017.

    5. putting together some publicly accessible research instruments these may be survey tools these may be interview tools these may be again things that other researchers can essentially pick up and then bring into their context as a way to again create more robust usefully empirically grounded research

      Fantastic, omg.

    6. to help other scholars and so that means developing things like um an easily accessible knowledge base of research about social annotation where might other researchers turn to to 00:20:36 get easy access to many many resources pertinent to social annotation we're for example putting together right now an open zotero bibliography so that anybody else who's writing about social notation can go there figure out what they need to know in terms of the literature

      How can we get access to this! This is amazingly perfect.

    7. social annotation does enable collaborative learning what are those qualities of collaborative learning what are those particular practices of

      avenue of research

    1. An instructional system can also be called a learning environment because both phrases refer to a set ofelements that interact in the process ofpromoting and sup­porting learning activities.

      So instructional systems are learning environments, where learning activities take place. Instructional systems design, is the creation of those environments.

    2. The systematic design process begins witl1 a goal and proceeds through an interconnected set of stages tliat build upon each otl1er by means of a series of inputs, processes, and outputs. The outputs of one stage become, together witli oilier relevant infomiation and products, inputs to oilier stages.

      the systematic design process starts with an endpoint. As a process it has various stages, the resources you create in the previous stage feed into the next (input/ouputs is the proper term).

    3. It is essentially a process ofidentifying a goal tliat may be based on a gap between the way tllings are and the way you want the m to be, or on a desire to reach out and accomplish sometliing new. As expressed by Koberg and Babrnall (1981), "Design is a proc-ess of making dreams come true."

      A little corny but design is the process of closing a gap between a goal and the way things are.

    4. Instmctional systen1S design (IS D ) is the process for creating instructional sys­tems. It is both systematic and scientific in that it is d ocume ntable , replicable in its general application, and leads to predictable outcomes

      BIG KAHUNA OF DEFINITIONS.

      ISD is the process of creating Instructional Systems which are

      An arrangement, an organized approach, a set of resources and procedures.

    5. instructional systems can function in coordination with other human performance improvement syste ms, such as knowledge management systems, incentive systems, organizational developme nt syste ms, and personnel selectio n syste ms.

      the systems can coexist with other aspects of human activity.

    6. instructio nal systems are some­ti mes referred to as training systenlS

      Not quite correct. But we are falling again on the issue of contextual definitions for instructional system. Maybe take a different approach where I use one definition.

      • training systems: when it primarily on skill development.
    7. a variety of forms, ranging fro m narrowly focused technical training courses to loosely structure d student-focused learning enviro nments, and exist in virtually any institution with the express purpose ofdeveloping human capacities. These include public schools, universities, miJitary organizations, business and industry, public service, and no n­profit organizations.

      There can be a "natural" vs. artificial system. To take control of the process, you would start with an analysis of the whole.

    1. Visual Literacy for Educators and Performance Specialist | Chapter 1


      Glossary

      Decorative Visual - a visual that does not have a strong association with instructional content. Added for aesthetic reasons.

      Educational Design - Similar to instructional design, but focusing on materials for learning and long term memory. Transfer knowledge to a new and novel situations is the ultimate goal.

      Electronic slides - Display software used in business and educational settings.

      Instructional Design - Design that encompasses educational and performance design; the art and science of solving instructional problems and identifying their solutions.

      Instructional Designer - A professional who analyzes instructional problems and their solutions and creates, implements, and tests appropriate interventions.

      Interface - The message or cue between a system and a user such as a link or button on a computer screen, or headings, and page numbers in a document. These cues tend to provide navigational assistance to the user/learner.

      Interpretive Visual- A visual that helps explain content.

      Job Aids - Performance tools that help people perform a task at the time of need.

      Just-in-Time- Instructional or task support available at the moment of need. E.g. instructions on the gas pump or automatic bank teller. Job aids are considered just-in-time support.

      Literacy - A broad term describing the ability to be knowledgeable about a particular subject, traditionally that of reading and writing. We also have visual literacy in this case!

      Organizational Visual - A visual that strengthens the structure and hierarchy of information and helps integrate information.

      Performance Design - Design that helps people perform a task or job immediately.

      Performance support - a tangible support that helps people do something at the moment of need (just-in-time). Maps, recipes, and instructions on a gas pump are types of performance support.

      Powerpoint- an electronic slide software tool from Microsoft.

      Representative Visual- A visual that carries the same information as the text or clearly identifies information to make it more concrete.

      Slide-ware - Electronic slide display software.

      Transformative Visual - Visuals that supplant new information into memory by making the information more memorable.

      Typography - the art and science of letterform.

      Universal Design - A usable design of products and environment, accessible to all people. Recently the term universal design has been used to address the larger context of design. Universal design employs principles (visual and otherwise) to create environments accessible to as many people as possible. Skills in visual literacy rely on a number of principles that also fall under the universal design umbrella.

      User - The receiver of a message, also considered the audience. Learners are considered users who interact with instructional messages.

      Visual Literacy - A group of acquired competencies for interpreting and composing visible messages. A visually literate person is able to (a) discriminate and make sense of visible objects as part of a visual acuity, (b) create static and dynamic visible objects effectively in a defined space, (c) comprehend and appreciate visual testaments of others, and (d) conjure objects in the mind's eye (Brill, Kim, and Branch, 2001)

      Visual Literacy for Instruction and Performance Support - The ability to work with tools (type, shape, color, depth, and space) and actions (contrast, alignment, repetition, and proximity) to influence learning and performance. More specifically this could be described as the tools and actions necessary to facilitate cognitive processes of selection, organization, and integration.


      Objc. becoming more visually literate on the composition sense. Creating compelling visuals is both art and a science.

      Providing clear instructions is worthwhile because it preservers the user's mental energy for the important information rather than wasting that energy.

      Questions to ask:

      What information is critical to this job? How do I make the information the focus of attention.

      The book uses the word Users as a way to identify the audience of each type of visual document.


      What Exactly is a Visual?

      • Semiotics and film/video conventions
      • signs, symbols, and icons
      • images and illustrations
      • multi-images
      • graphic representation

      Saunders' Definition

      • symbols (pictographic or abstract)
      • maps graphsdiagrams illustrations or rendered pictures (realistic to abstract)models composite graphics (multi-images)photographs
    1. Pedagogy of the Oppressed: Noam Chomsky, Howard Gardner, and Bruno della Chiesa Askwith Forum

      The Vatican II is the moment when the church went from the church of the persecutor to the church of the persecuted.

      The start of liberation theology. Preferential option of the poor. Chomsky always likes to talk about the historical roots and the U.S intervention. It clearly makes Howard Gardner uncomfortable.

      Priests and nuns were going to the hills and helping peasants to really read the Gospel not just recite it. Should we have a theological group in chapo.chat?

      Leonardo Buff and Gustavo Gutierrez | reading recs.

      the idea that the gospels are too radical and revolutionary

    1. Jamarcus Glover and his associates operated a series of “trap houses,” where they stashed crack cocaine, marijuana and prescription pills.

      The problematic appropriation of these sorts of terms by white nerds.

    2. State and federal officials are investigating whether detectives had enough evidence to tie Ms. Taylor to Mr. Glover when they sought the warrant to search her apartment.

      They will probably argue that yes they did. Otherwise it'd weaken their own activities on all sorts of people.

      Tying innocent people into Drug operations allows the flipping of witnesses into the police's hands. If Breonna hadn't been killed, she would have been asked to flip.

    1. We use the em dash to create a strong break in the structure of a sentence. We can use these dashes in pairs, as we would use parentheses—that is, to enclose a word, or a phrase, or a clause (as we’ve done here)—or they can be used alone to detach one end of a sentence from its main body.
    1. hyphen, em dash, en dash

      Hyphen

      1. combine words making compounds.

      e.g., well-being advanced-level school-aged 16-year-old

      Em Dash

      Em is a typographical unit of measure.

      1. Use the em dash to create a strong break in the meaning and structure of a sentence. They can be used in pairs like parentheses, or alone as a way to detach the end or beginning of a sentence from the main body.

      En Dash means as "through", often used to describe a range of numbers 2–27, 30–35 years old.

      In the associated press style there is advice to use a space in between the dashes.

      When to use em dashes versus comma vs. em dashes.

      Parentheses, can sometimes be interpreted to downplay importance of information.

      Commas, okay to use unless you have more commas in the sentence, and doesn't draw particular attention to info — doesn't emphasize it enough.

      Em Dashes, indicate that information is important or are useful when commas don't work.

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    1. and if the victorious party does not want to have fought in vain, it must maintain this rule by means of the terror which its arms inspire in the reactionists.

      You win the revolution, how far will you go to keep it?

    2. A number of Socialists have latterly launched a regular crusade against what they call the principle of authority. It suffices to tell them that this or that act is authoritarian for it to be condemned.

      Somethings haven't changed.

    1. Food-rich America ha s the highest child povert y rate in the industrialized world, 20.8% (Statist ical Abstract, Table 739, 1997). Here, black and Hispanic kids are more than twice as l ike ly to live in povert y as are white kids (Statist ical Abstract, Table 737, 1997).

      what are some updated numbers?

    2. Essenti all y, then, critical li teracy is langua ge use tha t questions the social constructi on of the self.

      Gender nihilism and the Gleeson essay were equally critical and questioning of language use define the self using social constructions of gender.

    3. i teracy is understood as social acti on through language use that develops us as agents inside a large r culture

      just language? this is revisionist from Freire's point of view?

    4. Critical li teracy, then, is an att it ude towards history, as Kenneth Bur ke (1984) might have said, or a dream of a ne w society aga inst the power now in power, as Paulo Fre ir e proposed (Shor and Freir e, 1987), or an insurrecti on of subjugated knowledg es, in the ideas of Miche l Foucault (1980), or a counter- he ge monic structure of fe eli ng, as Raymond Wil li ams (1977) theor iz ed, or a mult icultural resistance invented on the borders of crossing identities, as Gloria Anzaldua (1990) imagined, or langua ge used aga inst fit ti ng unexceptionably into the status quo, as Adr ienne Rich (1979) declare d.

      So here we have a wide variety of definitions. All of them are convenient made by people other than him, so if you are in disagreement with all, or some of them, take it up with Foucault or Freire.

      What critical literacy is not, is on the defensive, or static, or unchanging, or in power. It is the knowledge and groups of people that are subjugated or kept pressed down, it is the counter-culture, the dynamic opposition to the current cultures' attempt at a stable and fixated base. It will win, because a thing that tries to stay in one spot will not succeed.

    5. What is Critical Literacy?

      critical

      • expressing or involving an analysis of the merits and faults of a work of literature, music, or art.

      literacy

      • the ability to read and write
      • competence or knowledge in a specified area

      The education of individuals and groups in a way that lets them gain competence and knowledge in a specified field or area, while simultaneously being able to express or analyze the merits and faults of the current and previous works.

    1. Annotations on Speech by Kristen Ghodsee on her book "Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism".

      "We fix the USSR's history to Stalin's gulags and purges" but we don't allow for Capitalism's history to be reduced solely to Slavery and Jim Crow. In the America (the West) we allow Capitalism's history to be dynamic, changing.

      Countries have been heavily brutalized by the Global Economy. Project at Penn: Social impacts of Transition you can see by a variety of indicators not just economic but geographic and social, a lot of countries have not achieved the standard of living they had before the collapse of the USSR in the 1990s.

      The end of history and the success of capitalism didn't come true.

      If we look at our congress, our composition of our leaders, the median age is 65. There is a huge generational gap.

    1. theories

      A Theory Page with various subpages (do I even have the time?!). I already have individual theory tags but I might need to review that from EDIT 5370.

    1. build cross-class, cross-racial, and cross-gender alliances, which are now referred to as “inter-sectional” movements, the more they will challenge and change the destructive status quo

      you cannot have cross-class solidarity. You can only have class traitors that stand with the oppressed.

    2. Eugene Matusovis a Professor of Education at the University of Delaware. He studied developmental psychology with Soviet researchers working in the Vygotskian paradigm and worked as a schoolteacher before immigrating to the United States.

      READING REC ALERT READING REC ALERT

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    1. For them, disruptive behavior, challenges to school authority, and low academic commitment largely represent the effects of poor (alienating and repressive) education-and, indeed, of a repressive cor- porate capitalist order that ultimately though not directly shapes the nature of schools

      More voluntary magnet schools?

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    1. n contrast, Apple suggests that in order to understand how reproduction occurs within schools we need to study the ideological and cultural practices that takes place inside classrooms. In other words, there needs to be a focus on how the “hidden curriculum,” the “overt curriculum,” and teachers’ work contribute to social reproduction.

      Por que no los dos?

    2. The publication of Schooling in Capitalist America (1976) by Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, two prominent Marxist economists, set the stage for a renewed and revived interest in Marxist educational theory.

      reading rec

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    1. Hughey / Pedagogy of Newton 2 1 9 the worlds of literature, science, and history. All they did was try to rob me of the sense of my own uniqueness and worth, and in the process they nearly killed my urge to inquire, (p. 22

      the oppressor's curriculum.

    2. ach, I merge these perspectives with the soci- ology of knowledge and culture that examine the social origins of Newton's pedagogy and the potential effect of those ideas as they support and rebel against the mainstream construction of kn

      a) what the fuck is phenomenological. But here he is communing with the people by naming their own oppression. b) he names and creates an opportunity for reflection of the problems with the schooling system. c) Newton poses problem to the people by connecting Black miseducation with U.S imperialism and the oppressors effect on the oppressed.

    3. gies, they often shy away from an emphasis on edu- cational references and the centrality of Lenin's impact of Newton's incorpo- ration of dialectical thinking as an educational im

      The impact of Lenin and dialectical thinking on Newton.

    4. Founded by Husserl in 1913, and extended by theorists such as Heidegger, Sartre, and Merleau-Ponty, phenomenology is the study of the structures of consciousness that refer to objects outside it

      phenomenology is the study of the structures of consciousness that refer to objects outside itself.

      Read more about it.

    5. References to Newton's educational legacy are strikingly minimal in critical pedagogy literature. A few theorists such as Freire (1970/2000), Gardner (1995), Marable (1995, 1997), T'Shaka (1990), and White (1990) have cited contextual examples of non-Western and marginalized educa- tional leadership, yet Newton is conspicuously absent in these trea

      Freire leaves out African leaders or barely mentions the race construct and its effect on the oppressed. But it is certainly a factor of the oppressors.

    6. An African-centered pedagogy is concerned with the acquisition of self- determination and self-sufficiency for African people. It is ultimately con- cerned with truth and the 'Afrocentic mission to humanize the universe" -AgyeiAkoto (1992, p. 8

      absolutely tied to Freireian ideology.

    7. Activist Stew Albert (2001) wrote, In private conversation Huey was neither arrogant nor abstract nor high- pitched; he was painfully honest and down-to-earth about his unhappiness. As I remember our talk, he said, "I don't know about the Panthers. I don't know the members, the other chapters, around the country - are they right for the Party? I didn't recruit them. I didn't build them. Are they or this organi- zation any good? People expect me to work mira

      fascinating.

    8. heroes. As Lowen (1995) has written, heroification can be "a degenerative process . . . turnfing] flesh-and-blood individuals into pious, perfect creatures without conflicts, pain, credibility, or human interest" (p

      i definitely see revolutionaries in that lens until you start studying their lives more seriously.

    9. I was out in California that summer when Huey P. Newton got out of jail, and I watched it when people from the community came up and talked with him, congratulated him for coming home and told him how much they missed him and supported him. And I saw that he couldn't talk to them. His conversation was gone ... he was a million miles away

      That's fucking rough, if you can't engage in conversation and therefore start a dialogue, then how can you commune with the people?

    10. asses, and (c) his perceived abandonment of Black Nationalism for a quasi-Leninist Intercom- munalism alienated many just becoming aware of

      Huey might have been aware of the limitations of Black Nationalism, but without raising the consciousness of the people just coming into a political awakening, he tried dragging them into Leninism, or Vanguardism. The result is sloganizing, control, domination. And that will prove ineffective.

    11. Third, Newton constantly reformed his ideology as needed, signifying his ability to meet the needs of the Black underclass while not contradict- ing larger goals. That is, programs like the BPP school were coupled with free breakfast and free shoe programs. This was an effective merger of day-to-day alleviations of suffering with the Utopian idealism of socialist overthrow.

      Newton and the party worked in communion with the people. In an effort to put theory into practice creating critical consciousness and alleviating the struggles of the poor.

    12. Culture is overwhelmingly flexible and provisionary of individual agency while it is also "a social structure with an underlying logic of its own" (Hays, 1994, p. 65). Giddens (1984) writes

      Culture as Paolo Freire writes is constantly changing.

    13. I elucidate an understanding of how Newton's revolutionary pedagogy was constrained and enabled by the political climate of both repression and social change from Giddens' (1984) notion of "structuration." The theory employs a recursive notion of how actions are perpetuated or restrained by structures that are produced and reproduced by that action. Consequently, this theory has been adopted by those with structuralist inclinations but who wish to situate such institutions in a poststructuralist stance whereby human practice is not reified as an ideal type or material property

      Newton's revolutionary theory was the product of his political climate but it was also constrained by the limitations there in.

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    1. “The boundaries between subjects are really artificial constructs,” says the mathematician and author, whose new book is “X+Y: A Mathematician’s Manifesto for Rethinking Gender.” “Like the boundaries between colors in a rainbow.”

      PAULO FREIRE INTENSIFIES

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    1. I ain’t gonna work on Maggie’s farm no more No, I ain’t gonna work on Maggie’s farm no more Well, I wake in the morning Fold my hands and pray for rain I got a head full of ideas That are drivin’ me insane It’s a shame the way she makes me scrub the floor I ain’t gonna work on Maggie’s farm no more

      Bob Dyland - Maggie's Farm

    1. A great deal of human misery has been relieved because those European thinkers began concocting this notion of perpetual discovery, perpetual change, perpetual improvement — and inventing tools for bringing about this transformation of the human condition.

      Oh. My. GOOOOD

    2. The search for meaning in the stars or in the manipulation of magical symbols turned to the search for meaning in matter and the manipulation of mathematical symbols.

      ????

    3. People didn’t know how to think systematically about the material world until 17th and 18th centuries, despite millennia of attempts by philosophers to understand the nature of the energy and matter.

      ????

    4. Marx was just as deluded as Adam Smith when it came to understanding the real invisible hand that has influenced how humans work, live, and think for the past several centuries

      ????