Month: August 2016

  • Masculine Online Norms

    > Those cultural logics include valuing logic over emotion, winning over negotiation, aggressive confrontation over accommodation, individual liberty over the common good, and a sense of entitlement wrapped in a defense of “free speech” – speech that can win by aggressively silencing others. One of the curious ways individuality in this context is expressed is…

  • Friendly Surveillance

    > Personally, I refuse to embrace surveillance as a tool that fosters student learning.We wouldn’t accept it for ourselves, so we shouldn’t impose it on students. [source](https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/just-visiting/edtech-i-will-never-use-classroom)

  • Abuse by Design

    > “For years, it allowed this equal footing, where a troll you didn’t follow and your best friend who you follow and interact with all the time were given equal weight, and that’s crazy,” a former senior employee said. “Seriously, if you were an alien and you came down to look at this thing, you’d…

  • Problems with Praise

    >Some people react quite negatively to positive reinforcement, either becoming openly defiant or withdrawing in a show of passive resistance. Are these acts of sheer perversity? Not at all. They are reactions to a very basic but rarely noticed fact: the most notable aspect of a positive judgment is not that it is positive but…

  • Choral Documentation

    > While there are certainly plenty of unique scenarios that require a nuanced answer, in many more cases we have communities that are striving to learn more about common topics and asking similar questions. As a result various Knowledge Base Silos have arisen to meet that need. We have http://docs.reclaimhosting.com/, Emory has http://docs.emorydomains.org/, OU has…

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