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After reading Keena’s response to this article regarding the usefulness of iPOD’s at the high school and university level, I couldn’t help but to respond.
I have a friend who goes to Duke University and received a ‘free’ iPOD his freshman year. He tells me, despite the well-intentioned give-away, he does not use the iPOD for [...]
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Rob, I agree with what you said in your article, where you state that critical thinking does seem like critical pedagogy ‘lite’ in the manner that you describe. From my reading, I would agree with the fact that critical thinking is more of a high minded idea, while critical pedagogy encourages students to take action [...]
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As I was reading Amy Burger’s comments on this article about today’s youth becoming increasingly rude, I couldn’t help but agree on most of the points that both Amy and the article made.
I would agree, wholeheartedly, that answering a cellular phone call while in lecture is an incredibly rude action on part of the student. [...]
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I have just read RJ’s comment on a personal reading comment made by Amy Bastarache. Even though I have made my own comments on this particular blog made by Amy, I feel the need to respond to RJ’s comments.
First, I would like to agree with RJ’s comment that it seems to me that Amy put [...]
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As I read RJ’s personal comment on this article, a noticed I had a few comments of my own.
Although I find the opposition to have an incomplete case, I would also be forced to agree that the class would have a heavy teacher bias. The first, and biggest, hole in the students’ argument is that [...]
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I have just been reading Amy’s article that comments on this article.
Although I have to agree with Amy’s basic idea that students “should be able to investigate all possibilities for the origins of this world, in order to decide what they believe and don’t.” We, as educators, must accept the fact that there are multiple [...]
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I am writing in response to Rambo’s response to the class reading.
Although I would agree with your argument as you understood the statement, Rambo, I would then have to disagree with the meaning of the quote. As you state, the quote in question is, “Cultivat(ing) them in what the culture construes as desirable…the demands of [...]
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I have just recently read Rob’s post on an article describing rewards for perfect attendance.
Before I read the article, I was against the idea that schools were giving away money to encourage students from doing things that they were already supposed to be doing. Now, however, I understand their argument that when students are [...]
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I have just finished reading RJ’s post about the CNN reports about a conservative man offering money to students in exchange for class notes and lectures of teachers who push liberal agendas. The CNN articles are here and here.
I must agree with you RJ over having discomfort over this whole mess. [...]
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First off, Jessica, don’t become offended by news articles, especially those in which use averages and statistics, they don’t apply to everyone. Also, when you make these types of posts, would you be willing to supply a URL for the article. [...]
