Teachers disciplined for Facebook postings, Charlotte Observer (Nov. 12, 2008)
Some stories about people who got fired, suspended, or reprimanded in Charlotte for posting ill-advised material (including complaining about their students) on Facebook.
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Bernard Iddings Bell, "Universities and Religious Indifference," The Atlantic Monthly (Sept., 1932), 316-20.
Bookmarking to read later.
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Craig Co. replaces its Bible education course - Roanoke.com
Apparently pressure (not litigation) from the ACLU induced a North Carolina school board to drop a Bible literacy curriculum produced by the National Council on Bible Curriculum in Public Schools and replace it with one from the Bible Literacy Project. The idea is to use a curriculum that is more inclusive and pluralistic.
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Stephen Prothero, "Worshiping in Ignorance," The Chronicle of Higher Education (March 16, 2007)
Prothero on religious literacy. Bookmarking to read later. From the Chronicle Review.
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Lisa Miller, "The Gospel of Prothero: Are Americans Ignorant About Religion?," Newsweek (2007)
Not sure of the actual date.
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Washington Post, "On Faith" series: Stephen R. Prothero (Boston University) debates Barry Lynn (Americans United for Separation of Church and State)
Prothero kicks Lynn's ass, if you ask me. Lynn comes across looking desperate. However, if you check my Diigo annotations, you'll see that in the antepenultimate and penultimate points (Prothero, then Lynn), I think an important issue comes up, namely, how to deal with the inherent contestedness of any tradition. Whose version of Christianity, or whatever, do you teach? This doesn't seem like a problem that ought to stymie Prothero's proposal, but it is extraordinarily thorny, much more difficult to deal with than it might seem at first.
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Andrew Delbanco, "A Higher Education: Can the Humanities Survive? (Review of Kronman, Education's End)," from Commonweal 135/16 (Sept. 28, 2008)
Clipping mainly because he favorably mentions my institution, Ursinus. Links: CiteBite http://snipr.com/47j35 , original article http://snipr.com/47j2t
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John Taylor Gatto - Challenging the Myths of Modern Schooling
An antischool activist. Lots of stuff for sale.
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The Carnegie Commons - Community Event: Discussion by the authors of Opening Up Education: The Collective Advancement of Education through Open Technology, Open Content, and Open Knowledge
An online discussion scheduled for 11 am, Oct. 2, 2008. The book: Toru Iiyoshi and Vijay Kumar, Opening Up Education: The Collective Advancement of Education through Open Technology, Open Content, and Open Knowledge, with an intro. by John Seely Brown (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2008).
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2009 NetVUE Conference: Vocation in Undergraduate Education: Externding the Theological Exploration of Vocation (Indianapolis, March 12-14, 2009)
Applications for attendance by campus teams due Nov. 14. Funded in part by the Lilly Endowment, Inc.
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Siva Vaidhyanathan, "Generational Myth: Not all young people are tech-savvy," The Chronicle Review (Sept. 19, 2008)
Vaidhyanathan's point: stop talking about the "digital generation." It's bullshit. Among current students, some are comfortable with web technology, others are not, and most are anything but "savvy." For example: they have no idea how to use Google effectively, just like twenty years ago most of them had no idea how to use a library reference room effectively, and no idea how to analyze broadcast or print media critically. Why should they? Are people thinking they somehow pick up these skills by osmosis just because computers are lying around?
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Humanists sue as exam agency blocks GCSE | Education | The Guardian
Personally, I think the humanists are way off base here, despite the fact that I'm generally sympathetic to humanist organizations. "Humanism" (the concept being, for one thing, a contemporary invention of its detractors) is simply not a religious tradition that you can study the same way one can study Islam or Buddhism. More importantly, it's a strategic mistake and conceptual error to try and pretend to be one. Seen on @melmcbride 's Twitter stream.
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Scott Jaschik, "New Form of Adjunct Abuse," Inside Higher Ed (Sept. 11, 2008) - San Antonio adjuncts forced to "waive" compensation for full courseload
From the page: "Adjuncts are being encouraged to take on extra courses, as the institution can’t afford to hire as many full timers as it would like. But San Antonio also has rules — providing benefits and higher base pay — to those who teach 12 credits or more. What to do? The college is asking some part timers to take on the extra courses that bring their total to 12 or beyond, but then to agree in writing to pretend that they aren’t teaching 12 credits."
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Dooney's Cafe - How Dumb Can You Get?
Seen in melmcbride's friendfeed stream.
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Religion and Ethics NewsWeekly . Using the News to Teach Religion . Course Materials | PBS
Some practice examples.
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Religion and Ethics NewsWeekly . Using the News to Teach Religion . Real-World Examples | PBS
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Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly . Using the News to Teach Religion | PBS
Link from the Pluralism Project. Videos and educators' packets on how to use the news media as a "textbook" in a religious studies course.
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"Teaching Controversial Issues," from For Your Consideration 21 (Sept. 2004), Center for Teaching and Learning, UNC
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