The Lawnmower Man
37 Matching Annotations
- Nov 2018
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www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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- Oct 2018
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www.engadget.com www.engadget.com
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What was once a clever face-swapping technology quickly fell prone to abuse for porn.
Can put anyone's face on anything, an ISIS video or something worse
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foucault.info foucault.info
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Hotel-Dieu
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In this central tower, the director may spy on all the employees that he has under his orders: nurses, doctors, foremen, teachers, warders; he will be able to judge them continuously, alter their behaviour, impose upon them the methods he thinks best; and it will even be possible to observe the director himself.
sounds a little communistic, no?
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- Sep 2018
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www.michiganradio.org www.michiganradio.org
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Your most hated politician can spew rhetoric that makes you insane. But on the other hand, your professor can be a rhetorical ninja, fighting arguments with eloquent prose and articulation.
Rhetoric has a dichotic use now, for both good and bad.
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.certainly in academia, the word is still neutral, if not positive, as something that we study.”
There may be hope that rhetoric flips meaning. The word holds out its positivity in academia.
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‘empty rhetoric’ or ‘harsh rhetoric.’
examples of the negativity of rhetoric
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But sometimes people use it just to mean ‘talk.’”
People misuse rhetoric and use it to mean "talk"
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‘rhetoric’ to talk about sort of overblown speech, speech that is big words, but maybe not backed up...from there it gets more and more negative, and I think now you’ll hear people use it to talk about words that seem empty to them. It’s just rhetoric,"
The beginning of rhetoric's turn to evil
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- Feb 2018
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www.chronicle.com www.chronicle.com
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We invite students everywhere to read this beginning, to talk about it, to add to it.
again, letting students' voices and opinions be heard
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and the passion to know and learn even more.
learning is one level. play and experimenting elevates learning to the next level.
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Students have the right and responsibility to promote and participate in generous, kind, constructive communication within their learning environment.
respect
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Experimentation
no consequences for trying things.
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Assessment is only useful insofar as it helps to foster a culture of success and enjoyment in learning.
don't take the joy out of learning
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One size or approach does not fit all.
options
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Hybrid learning
even though an elevated online environment still needs to base itself in a real world application
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Flexibility
opportunity to open areas that are usually guarded and not usually available
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learn one another's methods, assumptions, values, knowledge and points of view.
Reminds me of my online DOD classes where we would share what was happening in the country we were living in and what we learned from it.
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offering multiple and multinational perspectives.
We are using a global platform thus we need to expand our perspective globally.
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The right to be teachers
Students are also teachers. They teach each other and shape each others learning.
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The right to have great teachers
just because it is all online doesn't mean the quality should go down.
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They are not being sold a product--nor are they the product being sold.
Students are actual humans with actual interests.
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should be clearly established and explained.
can't bait and switch 'em
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ny changes in terms of service should be clearly communicated by the provider, and they should never erode the original terms of privacy or the intellectual property rights to which the student agreed.
can't backslide on previous agreements
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while working to educate students about the various ways they can protect and license their data and creative work.
Students need to know what authority that have over the work they have made
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Students have a right to know how data collected about their participation in the online system will be used by the organization and made available to others.
need to know if their grades are being collected and analyzed, is the LMS being adjusted and recording their response, what personal information have the gathered about them?
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The right to access
errybody learning up in here
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the voice of the learner gets muffled.
ask the students how they feel
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propping up outdated educational practices rather than unfolding transformative ones.
we are at a crossroads. We can continue to use the old methods or try to use new methods that would change the game.
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www.seanmichaelmorris.com www.seanmichaelmorris.com
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learn from their mistakes
if you mess up, why? how did this effect the following steps? what will you try next time? why do you think that will work next time? metacognition
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"helicopter parent" learners in our classrooms.
need to be cool parents and let the kiddos do what they need to do. The whole mistrust of students hurts their learning and desire to connect deeply with the material.
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"doing the reading."
another way mistrust of students rears its ugly head.
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In short, "discussion" becomes "short essay."
takes the dialogue aspect out of it
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www.seanmichaelmorris.com www.seanmichaelmorris.com
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The syllabus is a pedagogical tool if we let it be, and not simply bureaucratic.
almost reclaim it didactic function
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are no significant differences between what/how we teach on-ground and what/how we teach online.
must acknowledge the different circumstance that online students face than FTF students
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transparency
I like this idea. Especially because it reminds me of grading. Usually grading seems very hidden and we don't know why we are getting what we are getting.
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legible (read: interesting), so that students will not only read the whole thing, but they'll remember what it said
reminds me of the TOS as we want them to be easily readable
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