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Constance Critchlow

Tools for Living - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 4 views

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  • Instead his students see themselves as designers, divorced from the dirty work of making.
    • Christian Burge
      Christian Burge on 28 Feb 12
       
      Students don't want to learn practical skills.
  • I can't help being reminded of that story when in my daily work as a Chronicle writer I hear the chorus of complaints about the state of higher education. You've heard them, too: Higher education is broken; it needs reinvigoration and reinvention to get students out the door and on their own as soon as possible. Lawmakers say colleges need to make students employable and to create jobs. Some critics say colleges should use technology to scale up; others go so far as to bemoan the physical campus as an unnecessary, expensive burden in an online world. In that cultural and economic climate, liberal-arts colleges have been at pains to articulate their usefulness. They have emphasized that they teach students how to think, how to be engaged, world citizens—not merely how to do a job.
  • Instead of viewing the physical campus as a burden, why not see it as an asset, even beyond the aesthetic attractions of the quad? With some imagination, couldn't these colleges use their campuses and rural settings to train students in valuable hands-on skills?
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  • The professors there routinely tie the skills taught on the farm to the sustainability lessons in the classroom. "Many educational institutions pride themselves on preparing students to lead a life of inquiry,"
  • People are quite aware that they are out of touch with the things that make their lives go, and as a result, you see a resurgence of interest in practical skills: Home gardening and raising chickens, for example, have become trendy again in the last few years, perhaps helped by the economic collapse and the embrace of local food.
  • Some critics say colleges should use technology to scale up
  • Instead of viewing the physical campus as a burden, why not see it as an asset, even beyond the aesthetic attractions of the quad?
  • "Many educational institutions pride themselves on preparing students to lead a life of inquiry," writes Philip Ackerman-Leist, an associate professor of environmental studies who founded the college farm, in Up Tunket Road: The Education of a Modern Homesteader, a book about building his home and farm in Vermont. But "few actually challenge and support students to embrace the ecological questions and immediately begin living the possible solutions—not later but in the midst of the educational experience itself."
  • "And they don't make the distinction between the liberal arts and skills," he says. "If you become a master electrician in Germany, you will probably read the great classics of German literature as part of your education. ... The notion is that the better educated you are, the better you will be as a worker, the more self-respect you'll have, and so on."
  • "Can you imagine Harvard requiring shop class?" he says, chuckling. "To me the real issue is that neglected zone of what happens in junior colleges, community colleges, and trade schools—how to raise the game there, how to make that a more productive site for craftsmanship."
  • "Somehow we have this notion that we are going to be this country that has all the idea people—that all the Steve Jobses of the world will live in the United States," Forrant says. "From my vantage point, looking at history, that's rubbish. ... To somehow think that you can dream something up without really understanding what it takes to make it flies in the face of reality."
    • Juan Mayen
      Juan Mayen on 28 Feb 12
       
      "Can you imagine Harvard requiring shop class?" - The author makes emphasis on how crazy would it sound if this truly happened. Clearly opposing the author's argument and using this as a base to later on support his argument. In other words he uses the counter argument as support for his argument.
  • Oberlin's environmental-studies program introduced him to the problems of fossil fuels and the notion of alternative fuels
    • Juan Mayen
      Juan Mayen on 28 Feb 12
       
      The author points out that it might be true that people's educational program might lead(with or without learning practical skills in the process) them to some of the same aspects such as alternative fuels. But without having practical skills (or experience) their knowledge is useless.
  • Although most people imagine that the future depends on sci-fi technologies, most of the technologies that make our lives possible today are fundamentally very old.
  • The Germans, on the other hand, had excellent engineering and specialization, but the run-of-the-mill German did not know how to fix the equipment
  • Compare that with the American system, which is "geared up for a service economy, where the idea is that people are going to prosper by getting farther and farther away from the world of skilled craftsmanship," he says. The higher-education elite doesn't value it.
Kevin Gardner

The Future of American Colleges May Lie, Literally, in Students' Hands - Google Groups - 0 views

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  • Although most people imagine that the future depends on sci-fi technologies, most of the technologies that make our lives possible today are fundamentally very old.
    • Kevin Gardner
      Kevin Gardner on 01 Mar 12
       
      Playing off of Robert Forrant's conclusion, Carlson positions those who imagine that the future depends on sci-fi technologies as naysayers to his more rounded and thoughtful analysis. He advances his argument by pointing out that most of the technologies that make our lives possible today stem from very old technology. 
  • Anna Lappé's Diet for a Hot Planet
    • Kevin Gardner
      Kevin Gardner on 01 Mar 12
       
      Those who identify with Anna Lappe's school of thought are nay-sayers to Carlson's argument in that they are taking an unbalanced and overly simplified  approach in trying to solve a complex matter where similar principles apply.   
  • some people question the practical value of a college degree
    • Kevin Gardner
      Kevin Gardner on 01 Mar 12
       
      The author is injecting a naysayer into his argument here by giving some attention to those who question the value of a college degree. Rather that searching out something fundamentally different from what higher education has to offer, Carlson explains, we aught to look with a fresh pair of eyes at what is already present and can be enhanced in the current system. 
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  • The book's treatment of the topic held few surprises, and the solutions offered were equally well-worn and deceptively simple: Buy fruits, vegetables, and meats locally, and cook them at home.
  • Instead of viewing the physical campus as a burden, why not see it as an asset, even beyond the aesthetic attractions of the quad? With some imagination, couldn't these colleges use their campuses and rural settings to train students in valuable hands-on skills?
  • Lawmakers say colleges need to make students employable and to create jobs. Some critics say colleges should use technology to scale up; others go so far as to bemoan the physical campus as an unnecessary, expensive burden in an online world.
  • the chorus of complaints about the state of higher education
    • Kevin Gardner
      Kevin Gardner on 01 Mar 12
       
      People complaining about the state of higher education and saying colleges need to make students employable, use technology to scale up, or view large campuses as an unnecessary burden in an online world, are naysayers to Carlson's argument in that they are proposing that we re-invent the wheel of higher education instead of optimizing the utility of what already exists by being creative.
  • Compare that with the American system, which is "geared up for a service economy, where the idea is that people are going to prosper by getting farther and farther away from the world of skilled craftsmanship," he says. The higher-education elite doesn't value it.
Juan Mayen

East Africa food crisis | Oxfam Australia - 0 views

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    • Juan Mayen
      Juan Mayen on 01 Mar 12
       
      Underneath the "what oxfam is doing"  there is a point: that states that they are also assisting communities to prevent this from happening in the future.
    • Juan Mayen
      Juan Mayen on 01 Mar 12
       
      Oxfam compound is currently receiving 1400 people a day and half of them are kids
    • Juan Mayen
      Juan Mayen on 01 Mar 12
       
      shock and disbelief at these people's conditions
    • Juan Mayen
      Juan Mayen on 01 Mar 12
       
      this people need support and oxfam providing clean water and support is essential to the survival of the people.
  • than 80% of people liv
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  • As a result they've been unable to grow food to earn an income and are therefore dependent on food ai
  • d for survival.
  • three regions: Somali, Oromiya and Tigray, and are aiming to reach around 1 million people with clean water, basic sanitation, and veterinary support.
  • We're helping communities look for more sustainable sources of water, by drilling boreholes, developing motorised water schemes and improving traditional water harvesting systems
  • we're ensuring that 500,000 heads of cattle have access to water, pasture, vaccinations and medical treatment.
  • Disease can spread quickly among animals too, particularly as they get weaker due to the impact of the drought. Most people in these areas depend on their livestock, and
  • We're also providing “cash-for-work” projects for locals to help clean local reservoirs and  build latrines, and have trained community officers on efficient management of water sources.
  • Somalia remains the epicentre of the emergency: UNHCR estimates about a quarter of the population (1.8 million) have been displaced
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nakins

The American Scholar: The Decline of the English Department - William M. Chace - 0 views

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  • The number of young men and women majoring in English has dropped dramatically
  • hile the study of English has become less popular among undergraduates, the study of business has risen to become the most popular major in the nation’s colleges and universities.
  • Here is how the numbers have changed from 1970/71 to 2003/04 (the last academic year with available figures): English: from 7.6 percent of the majors to 3.9 percent Foreign languages and literatures: from 2.5 percent to 1.3 percent Philosophy and religious studies: from 0.9 percent to 0.7 percent History: from 18.5 percent to 10.7 percent Business: from 13.7 percent to 21.9 percent
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  • There are several, but at the root is the failure of departments of English across the country to champion, with passion, the books they teach and to make a strong case to undergraduates that the knowledge of those books and the tradition in which they exist is a human good in and of itself.
    • nakins
      nakins on 01 Mar 12
       
      This seems to sound like the author's opinion here. This appears to be one of his reasons for the decline of the number of students in the English major field.
  • Students in public schools tended toward majors in managerial, technical, and pre-professional fields while students in private schools pursued more traditional and less practical academic subjects.
  • Increasingly into public, not private, schools.
  • Studying English taught us how to write and think better, and to make articulate many of the inchoate impulses and confusions of our post-adolescent minds. We began to see, as we had not before,
  • Yet the “glory years” of English and American literature turn out to have been brief. Before we regret the decline of the literary humanities, then, we must acknowledge how fleeting their place in the sun was.
  • Finding pleasure in such reading, and indeed in majoring in English, was a declaration at the time that education was not at all about getting a job or securing one’s future.
  • By contrast, private schools have until now been the most secure home of the humanities. But today even some liberal arts colleges are offering fewer courses in the liberal arts and more courses that are “practical.”
  • however: it is responsible for teaching composition. While this duty is always advertised as an activity central to higher education, it is one devoid of dignity. Its instructors are among the lowest paid of any who hold forth in a classroom; most, though possessing doctoral degrees, are ineligible for tenure or promotion; their offices are often small and crowded; their scholarship is rarely considered worthy of comparison with “literary” scholarship. Their work, while crucial, is demeaned.
  • rise of public education; the relative youth and instability (despite its apparent mature solidity) of English as a discipline; the impact of money; and the pressures upon departments within the modern university to attract financial resources rather than simply use them up. On all these scores, English has suffered. But the deeper explanation resides not in something that has happened to it, but in what it has done to itself.
  • English has become less and less coherent as a discipline and, worse, has come near exhaustion as a scholarly pursuit. English departments have not responded energetically and resourcefully to the situation surrounding them. While aware of their increasing marginality, English professors do not, on the whole, accept it. Reluctant to take a clear view of their circumstances—some of which are not under their control—they react by asserting grandiose claims while pursuing self-centered ends.
kevin buchan

Coaching Certification. ERIC Digest. - 0 views

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  • The coach is an important role model and influences values and attitudes. (Sabock, 1981)
  • Today's trends of hiring non-educators to coach and requiring limited professional preparation of coaches has raised concern over the educational value of interscholastic athletics as well as liability factors. These trends cause concern regarding the safety and welfare of the participant.
  • Certification of coaches is no guarantee that the problems will disappear or discontinue, but the problems can be reduced substantially if coaches can be certified in programs that approach those established for the education program.
Loghan Hastings

College Tuition, Student Loans, and Unemployment : The New Yorker - 0 views

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  • The protesters at Occupy Wall Street may not have put forth an explicit set of demands yet, but there is one thing that they all agree on: student debt is too damn high. Since the late nineteen-seventies, annual costs at four-year colleges have risen three times as fast as inflation, and, with savings rates dropping and state aid to colleges being cut, students have been forced to take on ever more debt in order to pay for school.
  • f course, a college-education bubble wouldn’t look exactly like a typical asset bubble, because you can’t flip a college degree the way you can flip a stock, or even a home.
  • This isn’t to say that eighteen-year-olds are perfectly rational economic actors. Most obviously, many of them borrow a lot of money and then don’t finish college, ending up debt-laden and without a degree.
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  • The college-bubble argument makes the solution to rising costs seem simple: if people just wake up, the bubble will pop, and reasonable prices will return. It’s much tougher to admit that there is no easy way out. Maybe we need to be willing to spend more and more of our incomes and taxpayer dollars on school, or maybe we need to be willing to pay educators and administrators significantly less, or maybe we need to find ways to make colleges more productive places, which would mean radically changing our idea of what going to college is all about. Until America figures out its priorities, college kids are going to have to keep running just to stand still. ♦
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kevin buchan

A State Analysis of High School Coaching Certification Requirements for Head Baseball C... - 0 views

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  • Currently, less than 8% of school coaches receive a specific education to coach (Martens, Flannery, and Roetert, 2003). Only 13 states specify that coaches must have a teaching certificate, and all of these states allow exceptions to this rule (NASBE, 2003
  • By 2000, 40% of the states required coaches to be certified in first aid and CPR, and 34% required coaches to complete a coaches' training course (Burgeson et al., 2001).
  • As a result of the lack of the states' initiative of requiring or recommending CPR and first-aid certification for all coaches, in 2003, the NFHS recommended that all coaches (experienced and non-experienced): (1) possess a current and valid CPR and first aid certification and (2) complete a planned systematic coaching education curriculum by 2006 (NASBE, 2003). In addition, the NFHS recommended that even certified teachers serving as head coaches maintain their professional development by completing a minimum of one coaching education course per year during their coaching tenure (NASBE, 2003).
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  • Among the co-ed middle/junior and senior high schools that offered co-ed interscholastic sports (99.2%), 51.7% required their head coaches to complete a coaches' training course (Burgeson et al., 2001). In addition, 51.3% and 45.6% of these secondary schools required head coaches to be certified in first aid and CPR, respectively (Burgeson et al., 2001).
  • Currently, there are 40 states that have adopted, recommended, or required one of two national certification programs (ASEP or PACE) for their respective head coaches (Jackowiak, 2003). Currently, ASEP continues to work with 40 state high school associations to provide coaching educational information for more than 25,000 coaches per year (ASEP, 2006)
zjackson1

http://studentnurse.tripod.com/men.html - 0 views

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zjackson1

Men in Nursing | MinorityNurse.com - 0 views

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zjackson1

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Juan Mayen

The Future of American Colleges May Lie, Literally, in Students' Hands « Sigm... - 6 views

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  • Lawmakers say colleges need to make students employable and to create jobs. Some critics say colleges should use technology to scale up; others go so far as to bemoan the physical campus as an unnecessary, expensive burden in an online world.
  • Certain colleges, specifically “work colleges” like Warren Wilson College, Deep Springs College, and the College of the Ozarks, have long-established curricula that blend manual skills with a liberal-arts education.
  • Instead of viewing the physical campus as a burden, why not see it as an asset, even beyond the aesthetic attractions of the quad?
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  • but you can’t assume that the Bell Curve is out of operation here, that all workers are creative, or that they curl up with Kant and Thomas Mann in the evenings.
  • Learning how to grow tomatoes does not really prepare you for managing a farm so that it can survive a year or two of poor crops. Carving a wooden spoon might be a step on the way to saying, I can do it, but it sure won’t supply a kitchen with all the needed tools.
  • “Many educational institutions pride themselves on preparing students to lead a life of inquiry,” writes Philip Ackerman-Leist, an associate professor of environmental studies who founded the college farm, in Up Tunket Road: The Education of a Modern Homesteader, a book about building his home and farm in Vermont. But “few actually challenge and support students to embrace the ecological questions and immediately begin living the possible solutions—not later but in the midst of the educational experience itself.”…
    • Juan Mayen
      Juan Mayen on 28 Feb 12
       
      Naysayer, the author introduces the lawyers as a negative voice, and expands upon it.
    • Juan Mayen
      Juan Mayen on 28 Feb 12
       
      There is a "But" right after "liberal-arts education". This but is prone to indicate that a counter argument has been made. And that is that there are Colleges who already try to be "practical work colleges".
  • Ebonee Laws on 27 Feb 12
     
    Lawmakers say colleges need to make students employable and to create jobs. Some critics say colleges should use technology to scale up; others go so far as to bemoan the physical campus as an unnecessary, expensive burden in an online world
Chris Melendez

The Future of American Colleges May Lie, Literally, in Students' Hands NaySayers - 0 views

I can't figure out how to do highlight the article without everyone else highlights on it. . 1. "others go so far as to bemoan the physical campus as an unnecessary" 2."expensive burden in an on...

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jared lambeth

Diigo Naysayers - 1 views

1-"Some critics say colleges use technology to scale up" 2-"Instead of viewing the physical campus as a burden, why not see it as an asset, even beyond the aesthetic attractions of the squad" 3-"So...

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Lauren Shelton

Tools for Living - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 1 views

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  • Lauren Shelton on 28 Feb 12
     
    Caleb Kenna for The Chronicle Review A friend of mine who works at Saint John's University and the College of Saint Benedict, in Minnesota, recently told me a story: Her book group read Anna Lappé's Diet for a Hot Planet, one of many recent books to focus on the vulnerabilities of the industrial food system and the threats posed by climate change.
Greg Graham

Class tomorrow (2/28) - 1 views

If you have a laptop, please bring it to class tomorrow.

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Ebonee Laws

T.M.I. - I Don't Want to Know - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • A Google spokesman asserts that the program is designed to combat “the faceless Web.”
  • Sure, you can unfollow, unsubscribe, de-link or tune people out. “At least the Internet gives us the option of blocking them, consigning them to oblivion forever,” Andy Borowitz
Lauren Shelton

T.M.I. - I Don't Want to Know - NYTimes.com - 6 views

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  • Greg Graham on 25 Feb 12
     
    Lauren, all I see is this bookmark. I don't see any annotations. Can you double-check the way you did it?
  • Lauren Shelton on 27 Feb 12
     
    Yeah, I wasn't sure if I did it right. How do you share it? haha. Sorry, I'm technologically challenged.
Chris Melendez

T.M.I. - I Don't Want to Know - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • What does this mean for our own data spills?
    • Juan Mayen
      Juan Mayen on 23 Feb 12
       
      Naysayer, the question is explicit. This mentions of what happen when we personally mess things up. All of the "social" world is there to see it. And they might have a totally different view of things or events that you do as something more serious or not to play with.
  • The whole system is giving very ambitious people much less chance to reinvent themselves,”
    • Juan Mayen
      Juan Mayen on 23 Feb 12
       
      Naysayer?, People want to be different and the social media is not allowing people to become a new "John" or "Wanda"
  • Weren’t we better off knowing a little bit less, a little less often, about everyone else?
    • Juan Mayen
      Juan Mayen on 23 Feb 12
       
      Question implied :Could we be better if we knew less about people, and not know so often? I probably have to agree on this one, we tend to look to much at fb and see people's relationship status change as fb changes its page characteristics (sigh* timeline, profile etc..)
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  • And while you’re still in upper childhood, unneeded social information is plastered everywhere. “There’s no such thing as a small party that you only hear about a month later, because now kids make sure that everyone knows a party is going on and that everyone else isn’t invited,” said Mark Bauerlein, author of “The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future.”
    • Chris Melendez
      Chris Melendez on 23 Feb 12
       
      Bauerlein is a naysayer in a yes but since  the idea is that the digital age is great for sharing information but he is claiming that the wrong information is being shared such as parties and social events instead of scholarly links. 
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