By John Warner. President-elect Trump has a habit of telling people he’s smart, frequently boasting of having gone to the Wharton School, and using the exact same, “I’m like, a smart person” formulation in one of his earliest primary rallies. Read more...
17 décembre 2016
Donald Trump: Our Dumbest President
Why You May Need Social Media For Your Career
By John Warner. Writing recently in the New York Times, Georgetown associate professor of computer science Cal Newport recommended that people should “quit social media because it can hurt your career.” Read more...
In Post-Fact America, Stories Still Win
By David Baker. How to make facts sexy again.
Some have dubbed this post-fact America. A place where polls failed to predict outcomes and facts and data failed to sway huge swaths of voters. We’ve seen a deluge of fake news. More...
Real Dangers of Fake News
By Kristine Maloney. The proliferation and impact of fake news has dominated the real news in the weeks following the election, and despite myriad articles and broadcast stories, I am not sick of hearing about it. More...
Surprises in the Data
By Michael Stoner. There were three big surprises in the data from our research on how teens use college and university websites, reinforcing the realization that you can't take their needs for granted. More...
Moving Your Kids: My House or the White House
By Rosemarie Emanuele. President-elect Trump recently announced that while he would live in the White House, the first lady and his grade-school son, Barron, will stay in NYC to finish the school year. Read more...
Math Geek Mom: Notes from the Past
By Rosemarie Emanuele. A professor who is a Philosopher of Mathematics once asked her class what they thought the “middle” number might be. Of course, it is zero, as the negative and positive numbers line up towards infinity in both directions, with the zero point grounding the position that marks the transition between those types of numbers. Read more...
“Finals Week is Coming Around”
By Rosemarie Emanuele. Just in time for exams...
You better crack down, you better not wait,
It’s time to review, ‘cause these are the days;
Finals week is coming around. Read more...
Socializing Academia
By Barbara Fister. Sick of relying on commercial platforms for academic sharing? Humanities Commons, SocArXiv, and the Center for Open Science to the rescue. Read more...
Best (and Worst) Practices for Designing Learning Spaces
By Barbara Fister. A new Project Information Literacy report by the ever-curious researcher, Alison Head, has just been published, the first in a new “practitioner’s series.” Planning and Designing Academic Library Learning Spaces involved interviewing 49 librarians, architects, and consultants involved in 22 library construction projects that were completed between 2011 and 2016. Read more...
