Here’s a thing going around Facebook today: Chicago mayor Rahm Emmanuel banned Trump from Chicago! So did Rahm just go Rahm-bo? Did he ban Trump from the city? Clicking through and seeing the headline on the actual article suggests a less dramatic story: And the quote in context? [Chicago Mayor Rahm Emmanuel] added: “Chicago, our… Continue reading

“HIV dissidents” or “denialists” are people who doubt or reject the fact that AIDS is caused by HIV. This view often results in the death or illness of its believers, and occasionally in the deaths of children who have no say in the matter. One of the fascinating things about HIV denialism is that the primary cause… Continue reading

I was struck this week by Benjamin Doxtdator’s latest post on showing students how to engage with social media in a way that subverts its purposes. On listening as an act of resistance. Of getting past glorifying connection as an end to that important question of purpose.  I wanted to jot down a few quick thoughts… Continue reading

I still don’t know quite what I’m doing with my newsletter, twenty weeks in. I’ve been writing quite a bit there. But should I also put that stuff on the web? Usually I do a series of long pieces and quick hits for it. But yesterday I did a quick round up of news from… Continue reading

Here’s a simple activity you can try in your class: Have students execute a Google search that is a question. Then have the students look at the top five results, and using lateral reading pick the source that is most likely to be authoritative and the source they think is least authoritative. Have them talk… Continue reading

So this is not a photo assignment (reverse image search will get you nowhere!). But here’s a photo anyway, for aesthetic reasons: It’s a quote from current U.S. Defense Secretary General Mattis emblazoned on a coffee mug: “I come in peace. I didn’t bring artillery. But I’m pleading you with tears in my eyes: if… Continue reading

OK, I’m still on a photos kick, but this showed up in Twitter this morning: Here’s the photo alone: And the tweet: https://twitter.com/President_Mommy/status/874617025821368320 Was this really taken aboard the Titanic? What else can you tell us about the photo? Go to it. As usual, don’t read the comments until after you do the assignment. I’m… Continue reading

I have a question I’d love others to answer for me. So I was looking at longer term declines in trust in the press. And what I expected to see was a long steady fall-off from the peak trust of Watergate and if you look at some charts you see that. But when you look… Continue reading

I had some Word documents students had produced that needed to go up on Digipo. I could have directly copy and pasted them, but they were in a slightly different document template. So I pasted and then pasted the separate pieces into the right places. I sped up the video below slightly, but in reality… Continue reading

When I was at Keene State College, we had a student life group that was heavily into environmentalism, and lots of extra-curricular activities and student learning were structured around making the local environment better. As an example, we’d have a clean up day each year where the students would pick a target — a local… Continue reading