universities need to figure out a way to offer more services—but both more cheaply and to a more diverse population, i.e. a nearly impossible task.

nowadays

test

shining a light on the strengths they demonstrated.

I began meeting with each student individually, focusing on remediation that targeted their areas for growth based on the data for each domain.

We would enter the raw scores into a spreadsheet and send it to the department head at the end of the semester. No meetings, no discussions, no impact on instruction. Many of us were confused—this seemed more about compliance than helping students.

that can be daunting.

get the data needed to design instruction isn’t easy.

but the wants of the wealthy and powerful who are converting public education from a civic enterprise to a marketplace for edu-vendors:

When you run a technology company, not surprisingly, the answer to everything, including the things you know nothing about, is more technology.

That’s a tall order for two young people with no background in child development or education

both have embarked on massive projects to impose their ideological visions of education on schoolchildren across the country.

None of that qualifies her to even teach in a public school, but her massive wealth apparently makes her an expert in the history and curriculum of public education, as well as child development and pedagogy.

or skipping from book to screen

Economics tends to ignore three things: culture’s effect on decision making, the usefulness of stories in explaining people’s actions, and ethical considerations.

STEM-only mindset is all wrong. The main problem is that it encourages students to approach their education vocationally—to think just in terms of the jobs they’re preparing for.

we need to think critically about their human context—something humanities graduates happen to be well trained to do.

Now that many of the biggest tech companies operate like media businesses, trafficking in information, they’re in a race to create new products to charm and track consumers.

Trump has made the negation of Obama’s legacy the foundation of his own. And this too is whiteness.

But that is the point of white supremacy—to ensure that that which all others achieve with maximal effort, white people (particularly white men) achieve with minimal qualification.

whiteness—that bloody heirloom which cannot ensure mastery of all events but can conjure a tailwind for most of them

Fantasies

removing barriers to online learning, and

Tools that redefine the spaces and places where learning occurs (virtual reality, augmented reality, holograms)

our current practice and policy was on par with what universities needed. It then became an issue of specifically having a legally binding agreement that protected the universities, professors, and students.

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“I come from a blue-collar, Irish Catholic, pro-Kennedy, pro-union family of Democrats,” says Bannon,

stream of Seinfeld royalties,

the insouciant African predator of YouTube fame

Jeff Spicoli

he wants to take down both Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush.

“Modernitypluralizes,”

Embracing a culture of sharing that breaks down silos while maintaining ethical and privacy standards will be paramount.

The embedding of maker culture in K–12 education has made students active contributors to the knowledge ecosystem rather than merely participants and consumers of knowledge.

My hope is that technologists also get involved in the political process — in government, in think-tanks, universities, and so on.

Computerized systems, for example, are exempt from many normal product-liability laws. This was originally done out of the fear of stifling innovation.

In general, Americans tend to mistrust government and trust corporations. Europeans tend to trust government and mistrust corporations.

Surveillance is the business model of the internet. Everyone is under constant surveillance by many companies, ranging from social networks like Facebook to cellphone providers. This data is collected, compiled, analyzed, and used to try to sell us stuff. Personalized advertising is how these companies make money, and is why so much of the internet is free to users. We’re the product, not the customer.

The first world, the movie might seem to argue, works less to provide its citizens with pleasure than to shape their desire by constructing others through their pain, lack, and death. Instead of giving Texans a health care system, for example, late capitalism gives them the illegal immigrant, to hate, to fear, and to dis-identify with. Prisons do more and more of the system-maintaining work that was once done by schools and hospitals: instead of giving us something to want, they give us something to fear, hate, and kill. And so, we eat ourselves.

But if you’re the kind of leftist who thinks that the means of production just need to be in better hands—Obama, for example, instead of George W. Bush, or Elizabeth Warren instead of Obama, or Bernie Sanders instead of Elizabeth Warren, and so on—then this movie buries a poison pill inside its protein bar: soylent green is people, you idiot, its kids, you’re eating kids, and you like the taste.

At more than half of schools, at least a third of seniors were unable to make a cohesive argument, assess thequality of evidence in a document or interpret data in a table, The Wall Street Journal found after reviewing thelatest results from dozens of public colleges and universities that gave the exam be

[narrator voice]: He didn't.

Anybody who wanders around the world saying, “Yes, I’m from Texas,” deserves whatever happens to him.

I shook my head and said nothing; just stared at him for a moment, trying to look grim. “There’s going to be trouble,” I said. “My assignment is to take pictures of the riot.”

Perhaps we should only use open as a modifier for other pedagogies,

In the United States, before 1989 no creative work was protected by copyright unless the creator opted in to protection by reigstering. Open (free + permissions) was the default. It was only in 1989, when the US joined the Berne Convention, that protection of all creative works became automatic and closed became the new default, requiring people to opt-in to sharing.

I personally believe this is where the magic lies.

Just as the hatred came from one side only, the care did not come from “many sides.”

This is not about “free speech.” It never was. There is no “free speech” if anyone brandishes firearms to intimidate those they despise. You can’t argue with the armed. The Nazis told us their intentions clearly on Saturday. This, to them, is about “blood and soil.” They are serious. So are we.

"The country is badly polarized, and people want to look at what’s happening at the universities and put it into that narrative: It’s red or its blue," she said. "But that is not what’s going on here; that’s not what happened here. What happened here is infra­red and ultraviolet; it’s beyond the spectrum of normal political discourse. Both Republican and Democratic elected leaders denounced what happened here. Seeking to normalize this as ordinary politics is the mistake." "What happened here yesterday wasn’t about ideas," she continued. "People weren’t out there arguing with each other. They were clobbering each other. That’s a very different situation. That’s violence. Violence is not free speech."

African Americans do not need science-fiction, or really any fiction, to tell them that that “history is still with us.”

Or would they address themselves to other less trod areas of Civil War history in the desire to say something new, in the desire to not, yet again, produce a richly imagined and visually beguiling lie?

“show us how this history is still with us in a way no strictly realistic drama ever could.” And that really is the problem.

Confederate is the kind of provocative thought experiment that can be engaged in when someone else’s lived reality really is fantasy to you, when your grandmother is not in danger of losing her vote, when the terrorist attack on Charleston evokes honest sympathy, but inspires no direct fear

the war is over for them

The Confederate flag is enmeshed in the state flag of Mississippi.

Hollywood has likely done more than any other American institution to obstruct a truthful apprehension of the Civil War, and thus modern America’s very origins

For while the Confederacy, as a political entity, was certainly defeated, and chattel slavery outlawed, the racist hierarchy which Lee and Davis sought to erect, lives on.

Pryzbylewski

It got part of the way there

without downloading or reading them.

Many of the university’s holdings “were invisible to the world,” Coleman says. Google’s involvement promised to change that.

“It’s hard to imagine going through a day doing the work we academics do without touching something that wouldn’t be there without Google Book Search,”

a persistent cultural challenge: how to balance copyright and fair use and keep everybody—authors, publishers, scholars, librarians—satisfied. That work still lies ahead.

James Somer

Image from Authors Guild

The Declaration of Independence of The United States of America

THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES

replicate the effectiveness of one-to-one tutoring in more affordable and scalable ways.

perfectly broken at the interfaces between itself and its competitors

Spicer

The internet, indexing, and cheap storage have unwittingly conspired to make the mythical permanent record a reality.

If you are using the Services by invitation of a Customer, whether that Customer is your employer, another organization, or an individual, that Customer determines its own policies regarding storage, access, modification, deletion, sharing, and retention of Customer Data which may apply to your use of the Services.

students are entering into an asymmetrical relationship with platforms.

We might think about digital redlining as the process by which different schools get differential journal access

"In an age of smartphones and social media, young people don't follow the news as much as it follows them.

As platforms and advertisers seek to perfect these strategies, colleges and universities rush to mimic those strategies in order to improve retention.4

We probably don't want to enable moderation in Canvas.

A few buttons and links are hidden

A few buttons and links are hidden when in third-party mode: the create new group button, the account settings link. (Actually, continuing to just hide these is probably the correct behaviour for Canvas third-party accounts as well.)

Canvas users won't be able to view activity pages

I don't think there's any easy way for us to allow existing accounts to be used or to link existing accounts to Canvas accounts. You can imagine ways that this might work but they'd involve user interaction and a lot more implementation work.

then it can just see whether a user account with that username exists.

an account

per Canvas instance?

Can we get an email address for the user as well? If we can get this from Canvas then we should probably add it to the account as well.

their Canvas username

then it's not possible for those accounts to see the normal Hypothesis Public and private groups (or to create new groups, view activity pages, etc).

some other parts of the Canvas app that are awkward with usernames too

I also imagine there might be trouble identifying students, given that they can choose any Hypothesis username they want and this may not match their real name or Canvas username.

before they can begin a Hypothesis annotation assignment.

we probably don't want to keep lists of members of groups in our database either - we'd have to get the list of all members of the course from Canvas, and keep it in sync whenever users join or leave the Canvas course.

How can we generate a name for the course group?

what information can we get from Canvas about that course?

For example separate publisher groups for each Canvas instance, or each installation of our Canvas app.

All Canvas users would be in one big group.

you would get one big public group for all of Canvas.

Students can't begin a group-based Hypothesis annotation assignment in Canvas until they've joined the relevant Hypothesis group.

or for large courses, maybe one Hypothesis group for each section or group within the course - this isn't 100% clear to me yet).

lifts up their passions

products and practices

they want

meet students where they are

personalized learning

Diigo has a role in supplementing the conversations on Twitter.

Our goal to become a social knowledge network however has clearly been eclipsed by social networks such as Facebook, Twitter and Quora.    

Annotation simply refers to a reader’s contribution to a text, whether it is “marginalia in a book, or a comment on Facebook or YouTube” (Dean and Schulten, par.2).

That life is complicated may seem a banal expression of the obvious, but it is nonetheless a profound theoretical statement. – Avery Gordon, Ghostly Matters

Complex personhood means that the stories people tell about themselves, about their troubles, about their social worlds, and about their society’s problems are entangled and weave between what is immediately available as a story and what their imaginations are reaching toward….Complex personhood means that even those who haunt our dominant institutions and their systems of value are haunted too by things they sometimes have names for and sometimes do not. At the very least, complex personhood is about conferring the respect on others that comes from presuming that life and people’s lives are simultaneously straightforward and full of enormously subtle meaning (4-5).

Instructors are required to sign an employment agreement that includes a noncompete clause that prevents them from working at other nearby schools for a year after they leave.

connectedness and mutually beneficial relationships

The impact of the bouncy castle and the waived fees,

None of the founders had traditional teaching experience

Facebook and YouTube moderators and Uber drivers owe their jobs to technology platforms, even as they train their digital replacements by their own efforts.

There’s a lot in this book, including detailed analyses of the blurring boundary between work and play,

Ed Finn, on the other hand, seeks to hold the technology industry to account: he believes we need “more readers, more critics,” posing questions about who technology serves, and to what ends.

Hartley too readily accepts Silicon Valley’s flattering self-descriptions of its values and vision for the world. The positivity of entrepreneurship does not sit comfortably with the skeptical outlook that the liberal arts nurture, and Hartley fully embraces entrepreneurship.

Hartley believes that liberal arts insights can right the ship: “We can pair fuzzies and techies to train our algorithms to better sift for, and mitigate, our shared human foibles.”

But Upton Sinclair explained long ago why the right set of perspectives alone will not solve the problem: “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”

For many of us, Silicon Valley’s “Don’t Be Evil” proclamations have lost credibility as the technology industry has grown from scrappy underdog to seemingly unaccountable colossus.

It is not enough to say technology can help build a better world: we must ask what a better world actually looks like.

beyond classroom

all of us

This won't just spontaneously generate out there on online platforms such as Reddit or Instagram. Neither will it happen in classrooms. Or community halls. But if we can find a way to weave all three together into a functional model, maybe there's a possibility.

privilege retweets over replies6

how the social media model of stream communications amplified decontextualization

The web has become media.

named Pris

it is futile to resist them.

it will require whole new ways to think about pensions, health care, benefits, sick leave, disability and retirement savings.

disrupting not only old industries but also the entire concept of work.

a radical expansion of freedom and a liberating empowerment of individuals to supply services as they please, without government interference.

The benefits that Airbnb and Uber pioneered go beyond convenience. They allow people to make human connections in an era that has become much more institutionalized in the decades since family-run bed-and-breakfasts began being replaced by standardized hotel chains.

Travis’s Law,” Stone writes. “It went something like this: Our product is so superior to the status quo that if we give people the opportunity to see it or try it, in any place in the world where government has to be at least somewhat responsive to the people, they will demand it and defend its right to exist.” He was right.

a techno-libertarianism that was contemptuous of most government attempts to regulate disruptive innovation.

radical libertarian ideology and monopolistic greed of many Silicon Valley entrepreneurs helped to decimate the livelihood of musicians and is now undermining the communal idealism of the early internet.

See, e.g., W. E. B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk (1903); J. Baldwin, The Fire Next Time (1963); T. Coates, Between the World and Me (2015).

What statements does the company make about accessibility?

Even when a company’s ideology is sound, the execution of that ideology through the platform may be flawed.

edtech CEOs

Oaxaca Old-Fashioned

a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right,

deeper, active learning experiences and skills-based training

they simply will not survive.

a deep understanding of digital environments

Technology

Advocates position Digital Humanities as a corrective to the “traditional” and outmoded approaches to literary study that supposedly plague English departments. Like much of the rhetoric surrounding Silicon Valley today, this discourse sees technological innovation as an end in itself and equates the development of disruptive business models with political progress.

Teachers and students would stand around the volumes and use the text as a jumping off point for an oral conversation.

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retrieves the JSON data

generates a well-formed search URL

To enhance that process, you could add the appropriate path to the output file name in this script, and write a shell script that runs this script and then commits/pushes to GitHub, and then schedule that script to run at regular intervals from your computer/server. I'm going to look into adding that functionality to this script, but it's not ready yet.

# search for all annotations with the tag IndieEdTech and return them in json format. s = searchurl(tag = 'IndieEdTech') l = retrievelist(s) # print the title of each article annotated. for entry in l: e = Annotation(entry) print(e.title)

given the annotation's API URL

literature became data

OCTOBER 28, 2012

film, which is really just the dead end of linear narrative,

Moreover, unlike print text, hypertext provides multiple paths between text segments, now often called "lexias" in a borrowing from the pre-hypertextual but prescient Roland Barthes.

But true freedom from the tyranny of the line is perceived as only really possible now at last with the advent of hypertext, written and read on the computer, where the line in fact does not exist unless one invents and implants it in the text.

Don’t we have to actually read the books, before saying what the patterns discovered in them mean?

But does the data point inescapably in that direction?

The direction of my inferences is critical: first the interpretive hypothesis and then the formal pattern, which attains the status of noticeability only because an interpretation already in place is picking it out.

The direction is the reverse in the digital humanities: first you run the numbers, and then you see if they prompt an interpretive hypothesis.

The humanities and the arts are being cut away, in both primary/secondary and college/uni­versity education, in virtually every nation of the world.

Traditionalists argue that emphasizing professional skills would betray the humanities' responsibility to honor the great monuments of culture for their own sake.

When the going gets tough, the tough take accounting. When the job market worsens, many students figure they can’t indulge in an English or a history major. They have to study something that will lead directly to a job.

2) comment, engage, retort, spread the word

The vision is theological

That has always been my aim, and the content of that aim — a desire for pre-eminence, authority and disciplinary power — is what blogs and the digital humanities stand against.

just a relay

Mark Poster draws the moral:

This emphasis on the present works at cross purposes with much long-form scholarship, which needs stability and longevity in order to make its points.”

“blog” is an ugly word (as are clog, smog and slog)

I will not be attending the Modern Language Association meeting in Seattle (Jan. 5-8), but I have read through the program to see what’s going on and what’s no longer going on in literary studies.

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fenced-off ghetto

“Ad-driven systems can only reward attention,” Mr. Williams says. “They can’t reward the right answer. Consumer-paid systems can. They can reward value. The inevitable solution: People will have to pay for quality content.”

The inevitable solution: People will have to pay for quality content.”

Now that we’ve made sharing information virtually effortless, how do we increase depth of understanding,

because humans are humans,” he says. “There’s a lock on our office door and our homes at night. The internet was started without the expectation that we’d have to do that online.

One story was about a retired Army colonel named Dave Hughes who wanted to hook up all 5.5 billion brains on the planet. No farmer’s kid need ever be lonely again.

As news becomes more visually oriented, the site stays focused on words.

“If I learn that every time I drive down this road I’m going to see more and more car crashes,” he says, “I’m going to take a different road.”

The trouble with the internet, Mr. Williams says, is that it rewards extremes.

they do not constitute an obstruction of justice.

are routinely made to investigators and prosecutors.

But telling the F.B.I. director that someone is a “good guy”

Indeed, when President Obama endorsed Hillary Clinton for president in June 2016 — during the height of the F.B.I.’s investigation into Secretary Clinton’s private email server

As the Supreme Court stated in United States v. Sun-Diamond Growers of California, “for bribery there must be a quid pro quo — a specific intent to give or receive something of value in exchange for an official act.”