Monthly Archives: December 2009

Reading Christie’s The Pale Horse and struck again by a couple things in Christie. We think of Christie as chronicling the 30s, and that’s what most of the horrible TV remakes have focussed on. But for Christie it wasn’t nostalgia, … Continue reading →

A recent find, as applicable to new media as to numeracy. From Robert Orrill’s Mathematics, Numeracy, and Democracy: “For both Dewey and Cremin, the matter becomes even more complex when we ask what literacy means in a society dedicated to … Continue reading →

We have a department twitter account here at CELT. The idea of that account is it’s a place to share edtech and ed design info without forcing faculty members to sort through my political rants, Jenny’s comments about beer and … Continue reading →

This is really a continuation of my conversation with @gobman on twitter, but it was too big for twitter, so I’m dumping it here. Do I believe in learning styles? Yeah. I think so. I believe that people have different … Continue reading →

I’ve been looking for a Twitterfeed alternative, since the service has been a bit shaky lately, and I’ve been amazed at how many of the competitors to Twitterfeed have had to shut down due to being overrun by spammers. And … Continue reading →

A supposedly scary story about how dumb Facebook users are: Although the 50-something crowd responding to the request from “Dinette Stonily” were less likely to give out a fully-fleshed date of birth, they were three times more apt to hand … Continue reading →

I hated grade school. My two daughters love it. I found it, by third grade, to be too arbitrary, too restrictive, too bound up with power. My daughters love the structure. I did poorly grade-wise at school, graduating in the … Continue reading →

Just some data re: my post the other day, from Gallup, February 2007. Keep in mind the question here is “Would you vote for the person in your political party if they were of belief/orientation/gender/age X?” The difference from 100% … Continue reading →

I just stole food out of the mouths of Kenneth Fearing’s heirs — I pulled down his The Big Clock today from my new favorite book-sharing site instead of forking over the money for it to my local chain bookstore. … Continue reading →

A weird thing happened the other day that I’ve been thinking quite a lot about. Someone asked me when I would run for office. (If you know my political history that makes more sense). I replied offhand what I usually … Continue reading →