Onions for days
Month: June 2017
Today, I am Peter Piper
As seen in the New York Times
Aletheia keeps referring to guacamole as “broccamole.” Millennials ruin everything.
Feed me, Seymour
Perks of where I work
When we treat students like consumers
A Guide for Resisting Edtech: the Case against Turnitin, by Hybrid Pedagogy
There is so much to unpack here, but this was my favorite part: “Plagiarism detection services ‘undermine students’ authority’ over their own work; place students in a role of needing to be ‘policed’; ‘create a hostile environment’; supplant good teaching with the use of inferior technology; violate student privacy.”
Let’s not use the word “discover”
Unseen Edith Wharton play found hidden in Texas archive, The Guardian
Can we talk a bit about the invisible labor of archivists? This “hidden” Wharton play had been part of the Ransom Center’s finding aid for years. Some archivist meticulously noted its existence and authorship when the material was acquired and processed. Items in archives are not “discovered” by researchers nor are items “hidden” until that point (except in the case of misplaced items).
I don’t mean to denigrate the work of these particular researchers, I only think we need to reconsider the language we use to describe the work of bringing knowledge into the public sphere.