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Poignant question, good discussion in the comments.

Here's what I do. It's geared to my own beliefs and abilities while teaching. Other methods work for other people. 1/

#PublicPedagogy #WritingStudies #CdnWrds
These days, reading drafts and commenting on them is time- and energy-consuming for me. There's burnout and loss of ability to focus at play. Also too much time sitting with screens looking at texts. So, I have to start from the premise that it costs me something to agree. 2/
My sense of equity in teaching dictates that if I agree to do it for one student, I have to present it as an offer for the other students as well. Not everyone thinks that way, others reward the initiative displayed by the students who request it. That's not my way, I guess. 3/
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β€œCan we please have one area of intelligence where there is no thinking?”
The conversation is about this piece by the way. It discusses the draft paper that was part of Timnit Gebru’s exit from Google.

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When this podcast was recorded, earlier this year, I didn't have much online teaching experience. I speculated that I would miss being able to scan the room to assess where students were at with a particular task. 1/

#publicpedagogy #OnlineClasses #cdnwrds #AcademicTwitter
And I do miss that. I miss seeing whether they're with me, or preoccupied with something else (e.g., a big assignment in another course, their snack time, or that time of the year when a class coincides with the opening of their registration window for summer courses), . . . 2/
. . . or overwhelmed by the complexity of what I'm asking them to do, or in need of a nudge to actually dig in their bag to find a pen or open the right window to work in the app we're using or move seats so they can in fact see or hear what their teammates are doing. 3/
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I wrote this as postmodernist parody of #JamesLindsay.

There's a deeper point: History of research disciplines tells us that as you build new knowledge, even through sometimes aggressive critique of others' work, you need to build it with others' concepts and ideas. 1/
Even as you build your knowledge *against* some other knowledge that you think is dead wrong, you need to build it *with* knowledge that's already around, and you need to choose that knowledge with care and scrutiny as to its quality. 2/
Part of the process is that you tell your readers & listeners what that knowledge is. Who are the sources? What are the concepts? How do you relate them together? How do see them apply to your evidence? What questions do you pick up from where, which do you leave aside? 3/
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If you're not yet tired of hearing about 2+2=4 and 2+2=5, I wrote a piece about it!

Or, if you are tired of it, here's my piece that ties key points together and sums it all up in terms of #publicpedagogy!

#disciplinarity #writingstudies #cdnwrds

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With nods to those on whose Twitter work my piece relies: @melvinmperalta, @Laurie_Rubel, @kareem_carr, @wtgowers, @wokal_distance, @AaronRHanlon, @mccormick_ted, @ETVPod, and @yarbsalocin.
"It is worth noting that logical pluralism is a mainstream position among logicians and completely within the Western tradition which Lindsay so adamantly claims to defend, yet this is something that his worldview does not admit."

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