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Once More Into the Breach Feb 15

@andricheli @sergio_101 @Ronguest Ooh! Ooh! This is exciting! I've been using Penzu for at least as long, but (a) it's search function sucks eggs at the small end, and (b) I constantly find I'm copying stuff to Obsidian anyway that I might want to use in my writing. Why not just move the whole thing and be done with it??? The less I have spread around among various apps, I think, the better. Thank you for taking the time to share this!

Once More Into the Breach Feb 15

Dear student:

If I can remember what 60 of you wish to be called & respect that, I'd think you could figure out a way to address me properly.

It is disrespectful, after I've explained it to the class twice & you at least twice more, for you to continue to refer to a female professor with an earned doctorate as "Mrs."

There is no one by that name here and so I'll be returning any future missives addressed to that personage as undeliverable.

Thank you,
That is all.

Signed,
DOCTOR Lowly

Once More Into the Breach Feb 2

It's something else when a prof is afraid to celebrate Black History Month in class, and when doing so anyway feels like an act of bravery--or foolishness.

Sigh.

Once More Into the Breach Jan 25

It Matters Where You’re Standing

Critical Theory Let's talk about critical theory for a minute. Do you remember the scene in How to Train Your Dragon when Hiccup remarks to Toothless that "Everything we know about you guys is wrong"? Why were they wrong? Understanding positionality That's what critical theory is about. A major tenet of the theory is that knowledge is socially constructed. I talked about this in an earlier lecture when I compared the entirely different…

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It Matters Where You’re Standing

Critical Theory Let’s talk about critical theory for a minute. Do you remember the scene in How to Train Your Dragon when Hiccup remarks to Toothless that “Everything we know about you …

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Once More Into the Breach Jan 25

Andrea Junker

Jan 24

“Get it all on record now — get the films — get the witnesses — because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.”

Dwight D. Eisenhower, after visiting liberated concentration camps in April 1945

Once More Into the Breach Dec 20

James Gleick Dec 19

These are workers removing the signage for Adolf Hitler street in 1945. This seems like a good day to remember.

Once More Into the Breach Dec 20

Rob Isaac Dec 19

Me: Hmm, havn't seen the cat in a while.

Bernard: J'ARRIVE MOTHERFUCKER

Once More Into the Breach Dec 19

"Georgia’s public campuses understand this responsibility. They’re.... aligning programs with workforce needs"

FFS, Dude. That's not "responsibility," that's knuckling under to external pressures that run counter to the mission of a four-year college. Students can get job training at 2-year community college programs for a fraction of the money, more specifically attuned to the job they'll be doing, in half the time.

Argle bargle.

Love to know what you think of this op/ed.

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Once More Into the Breach Dec 19

Again, when students write online discussion posts with ShatGPT they're not learning communication skills. When they spend mere minutes writing an entire presentation, they'e not learning how to get shit done--never mind how to think on their feet: I heard last week about a nurse asking ChatGPT how to calculate a dose of anaesthetic.

Yet on this twit's watch, their state system has rolled out CoPilot free to students, faculty, & admin alike. California just signed a deal with OpenAI.

Once More Into the Breach Dec 19

Anyway. He repeats that same dumb construction 3 or 4 times--no wait, 6 & counting....

Heck, 2x in 1para:

"A degree isn’t only a piece of paper.... It’s also a crash course in learning how to “get stuff done,” otherwise known as a degree in GSD. Those phrases may sound lighthearted, but they reflect something serious. When you do things right, college students graduate with effective communication skills, the ability to navigate complex situations and the flexibility to think on their feet."