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Teaching with blogs: wartime to social studies on 2009-06-01
Document View on 2009-03-25
- The proprietorial eye of male desire becomes the weapon of fascism in Gilead
- In Gilead this male gaze, detached from the specificity of a body and so freed from any humanizing context, is rendered mechanical, impersonal, bureaucratic. Identified with a political authority figured in traditional terms as all-seeing, the eye becomes the Eye.
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- - an anatomical fragmen
  - the eye/Eye of the novel is obviously associated with the mechanical eye of the camera--the cinematic eye
  - defines maleness as institutionalized power haunted not only by the threat of castration but also, in the case of the Sons of Jacob, by great anxiety about male fertility and impotence. Encoding the eye/Eye as the visual dimension of the penis/Phallus, The Handmaid's Tale implicitly identifies surveillance as the defining feature of both masculine sexuality and (in this context) its political equivalent: patriarchal dictatorship.
  - this (ironic) emblem of Hippocratic integrity accomplishes the gendering of medical authority as masculine, and designates the link between that authority and the phallic eye
  - n The Handmaid's Tale it is the medical eye, with its invasive technological expertise, that can introduce the over-controlling, patriarchal gaze of totalitarianism into the most private of all spheres, the inner spaces of the human body
Social websites harm children's brains: Chilling warning to parents from top neuroscientist | Mail Online on 2009-02-24
- 'I often wonder whether real conversation in real time may eventually give way to these sanitised and easier screen dialogues
  - Laura Blankenship on 2009-02-24
    
    I don't think screen conversations are sanitised or easier.
The Assessment Impasse :: Inside Higher Ed :: Higher Education's Source for News, Views and Jobs on 2009-02-05
- At the core of the problem is an issue that hasn’t been discussed much when it comes to measuring learning outcomes in the higher cognitive skills: We literally don’t know what we’re talking about.
- The critical thinking skills students actually need pertain to real-life, ill-structured, very messy problems, while the tests require something far simpler so that reliable scoring can be obtained. Franklin and Eleanor can answer the question with almost any opinion, the test makers say, as long as they can support it.
In Europe, Debate Over Islam and Virginity - NYTimes.com on 2009-01-29
- It sends these women a message of despair by saying that virginity is important in the eyes of the law.
- Attaching so much importance to the hymen is regression, submission to the intolerance of the past
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- - “He told me, ‘I will forgive everything but not if you have thrown dirt on my honor.’
Washington Confident It Can Forge Recovery Plan - NYTimes.com on 2009-01-23
- The meeting, the first involving the bipartisan leadership since Mr. Obama took office Tuesday, was intended to signal quick action at a time of continuing turmoil as well as a commitment by the new president to work across party lines. For the moment, both sides appear eager to appear, at least, on the same page, recognizing the deep public anxiety about spiraling job losses, unraveling banks and sinking stock and home values
Long Distance Mom: Facebooked :: Inside Higher Ed :: Higher Education's Source for News, Views and Jobs on 2009-01-22
Is Your Husband a Worse Problem Than Larry Summers? :: Inside Higher Ed :: Higher Education's Source for News, Views and Jobs on 2009-01-21
From Knowledgeable to Knowledge-able: Experiments in New Media Literacy on 2009-01-21
Article | The American Prospect on 2009-01-21

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This is a resource for liberal arts college and university faculty and staff who are exploring the uses of gaming in teaching, learning, and research.