Huffington Post: "Sheepskin and the Herd: Why Passive Student Consumption of Higher Ed Is Destroying Critical Thought"

A more pernicious but subtler threat to an education that produces independent thinkers, I believe, is the prevailing student attitude of passive consumption toward post-secondary learning. Many of the students with whom I had ( Read more... )

So it's been a while since I did one of these -- sorry!  This is mostly because a while back, Firefox crashed on me yet again, only that time it didn't restore my tabs as it usually does.  So a lot of links I was planning on featuring here got lost.  Hopefully this should start making up for it.  ^_^;  (And I'm not going to give too much commentary ( Read more... )

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And because this is important (and because Jay Smooth rocks my world as always):

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So I friend a lot of awesome people over the weekend, get really excited -- and then all but disappear off the face of the Internet for a few days.  Sorry about that.  ^_^;  Yesterday was very hectic, and I'm just being active and feeling apathetic as I usually do, so I'm still trying to get caught up on leaving and replying to comments.  I should ( Read more... )