Last night, I was finally able to view Apple’s recent education event from New York City. Yes, I had read about their announcements and downloaded iBooks Author and the new iTunes U, but hadn’t realized just how potentially game-changing these new tools are for what I do.
Tag Archives | education
Occupied?
Want to fix our current economic crisis? Start with higher education. I look at a root cause of America’s current class anxieties.
Old Miscellany: Fleming and Bond
I was going through my filing cabinet this morning looking for notes on Flaubert, and I came across a file labeled “Old Miscellany.” I couldn’t pass that up. Oh the gems I found there, including some old copies of the North River News in which I had published some angry letters; some notes from my [...]
The New Old West
Well, it’s happening: we’re one step further toward the new old west. Apparently, the Georgia legislature feels, almost unanimously, that we citizens need to be armed. The right to bear arms is not enough: we have a compulsion to bear arms. In a gun bill that passed yesterday, 43-10, our wise legislators decided that guns [...]
Shooting with Nathan
I seem to be preoccupied with guns lately, and Nathan is not helping. We spent just over an hour at the Macon Police Department’s shooting range yesterday. Nathan was practicing his black ops shooting techniques for something he’s writing, and I was educating myself about handguns. One of the first things I learned is that [...]
Not a Business
In a meeting on campus the other day, someone said to me: “The college is a business.” I responded: “No, it’s not. There might be business done in the college, but it is an institution of higher education.” I know that many in this state — and perhaps around the country — are trying to [...]
Giroux on Education
Henry Giroux states, in “Obama and the Promise of Education“: As I’ve learned during the past eight years: democracy cannot be fruitful without an educated, engaged citizenry. Perhaps we can finally put the time of anti-intellectualism behind us.