By John Warner. Why are so many high school graduates bad writers when they arrive at college. More...
Gone Fishing: Introducing My Guest Blogger
By John Warner. Taking a trip of a lifetime and leaving someone to mind the store. More...
Fed Up
By John Warner. There are two stories in the news which reveal the power of people who are mad as hell and can’t take it anymore. More...
31 Years, 11 Months
By John Warner. I was last on the Duke University campus 31 years 11 months ago, when I was visiting my older brother during my high school spring break, which happened to coincide with my 16th birthday and my brother’s 20th. More...
The Crisis of the 'Moderate' Conservative Public Intellectual
By John Warner. They admit they're not up to the task of stitching the country back together. Who is. More...
Informed Dissent
By Barbara Fister. I went to a brown-bag lunch with some folks today talking about how to use a new software platform developed to keep notes about advisees and keep track of both problems and promise. It will replace a lot of emails and phone calls and dropped balls, but it also feels a bit like a benevolent Panopticon. More...
Winner Take All (But the Blame)
By Barbara Fister. As hard as it is to be shocked by anything anymore, the deeply reported story about how a politically-motivated marketing company used personal data of over fifty million unwitting people gathered through a Facebook app, collecting psychological profiles to merge with vast amounts of personal data is still pretty astonishing. Kudos to The New York Times and the Guardian’s Observer for their work. More...
Other Duties as Assigned
From Schooled Skepticism to Informed Trust
Career Opportunities at the Intersection of Learning and Technology
By Joshua Kim. This morning I saw a post on LInkedIn from Thomas Cavanagh, Vice Provost for Digital Learning at University of Central Florida (and an amazing leader), that read:"We are currently searching for 5 instructional designer positions at #UCF! Be a part of one of the leading digital learning institutions in the nation. And, BTW, it was 73 degrees today without a cloud in the sky. Apply for each search separately for full consideration. Hope to see you in sunny Orlando! "
Wow. 5 instructional designer searches at UCF. More...