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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
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/
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
#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/
This point appears to be correct.
I’m going to line up my favourite comments here.
You know how much I like using a direct letter format on Twitter. And a parody that channels the parodied’s sentence structure back at them.
You know how much I like using a direct letter format on Twitter. And a parody that channels the parodied’s sentence structure back at them.
If Yascha Mounk thinks talking about “2+2” has a negative impact on the reputation of public health research during a pandemic, has he asked himself what negative impact his talk of “cancel culture” has?
Build a routine where what you presented in lecture-style form will be deepened in an upcoming activity. It’s a good way to prune your lecture ahead of time, too: how will this feed into students doing something with what you’re lecturing on? 2/
When you then orient them to breakout room discussion, make the discussion questions more outcome-oriented than you would in a face-to-face class. What are they meant to practice? Where can this analysis lead them? What productive thing can be done with this material? 3/
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/
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/
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
medium.com/@KatjaT/what-h…
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
medium.com/@KatjaT/what-h…
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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Observe.
Someone with grad training in math manages to explain, in the length of one tweet, a set of believable conditions under which 2+2=5. It’s a feat of #publicpedagogy, really.
James Lindsay’s response: “You can’t be this stupid, which means you’re completely dishonest.”
Someone with grad training in math manages to explain, in the length of one tweet, a set of believable conditions under which 2+2=5. It’s a feat of #publicpedagogy, really.
James Lindsay’s response: “You can’t be this stupid, which means you’re completely dishonest.”
We should thank the heavens he’s no longer invited to teach in institutions of higher learning.
In Orwell, 2+2=5 is not about conceptual daring of mathematical thinking, it's about the potential of authoritarian power to force people to repeat, without any questions, and then to eventually believe something that goes against established knowledge.
