Entries Written By Tim
in Occasions
Welcome back, NFL. Why do we keep watching?
One play from last night triggered my ongoing deep ambivalence with the NFL: does it resemble cock-fighting and similar outmoded activities that we will look back on regretfully for having supported?
Teachers as Designers in The Coming Machine Age
The emergence of blended learning, ed tech, and online secondary schools might cause educators to wonder what their role might be in the future, when machines rule the world.
Hey Bots, All the World’s a Stage
The highest recommendation I can offer for Keith Johnstone’s Impro is that I read it at the start of summer and now wish it were closer to labor day.
in Fictions
Stuck
A man and a woman, a guy and a gal, a gentleman and a dame—they enter a room. A few months later, they go to leave and discover the woman can’t fit through the door. I get you. Preggers. Alea iacta est. A snake enters a mouse den– –do they call them den’s? Your snake …
in Fictions
4 Questions for Marianne del Cerriota
Marianne del Cerriota, M.D. is a senior fellow at the Kassel Institute for Bio-Economic Policy, a think-tank in San Diego. del Cerriota is a respected authority on bioeconomics issues at the frontier of medicine and technology, most notably generative medicine and semantic bio-diagnostic research. Author or editor of 14 books as well as a chapbook …
Freshman Composition as a Window into College Prep
Freshman composition evolved from Harvard’s English 8—a course in which students read “great literature” and applied New Critical methods to analyze it. The course focused on close reading, Literature appreciation, and argument—though the last in only a very narrow sense, since it was argument restricted to the terms set forth in the piece of literature. The …
in Design
Multiple Page Post
She had a last view back on the skyline of her hometown Bookmarksgrove. (H3) Far far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and Consonantia, there live the blind texts. Separated they live in Bookmarksgrove right at the coast of the Semantics, a large language ocean. A small river named Duden flows by their …
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Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
in Occasions
Let Go
Can we agree that undue interest in keeping one’s feet dry is despicable?
in Occasions
Paling Kings
“Most of us are allowed to go through the span of life allotted to us in actuarial tables.” from The Echo newspaper, November 1, 1869 Except the tables don’t tell the whole tale, do they? There are also qualitative burdens—especially when it comes to certain folks, say for example kings, who: …must bear all. O …
Treating Classes Like Gatherings, Part Three: Ending Well(If you haven’t read part one, on establishing purpose, or part two, on facilitating well, I’d [keep reading...]
Treating Classes Like Gatherings, Part Two: Teaching With Generous Authority(If you haven’t read part one, about establishing purpose, consider starting there.) After [keep reading...]
Why Teachers Should Consider Their Classes “Gatherings”Priya Parker’s The Art of Gathering, a book that, as the subtitle suggests, takes up the subject of [keep reading...]