Category: Technology
DIY U and a New Vision For Higher Education
| February 9, 2013 | Posted by Josh Boldt under Activism, Adjunct Professors, Book Reviews, Education, Teaching, Technology |
I read DIY U in about 24 hours. Anya Kamenetz’s book is only 163 pages, but I don’t think it contains a single skippable sentence. DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education is one of the most interesting and exciting books I’ve picked up in the past year. I grabbed a…
Attack of the Robot Graders!
| April 27, 2012 | Posted by Josh Boldt under Education, Technology |
Michael Winerip’s recent New York Times piece entitled “Facing a Robo-Grader? Just Keep Obfuscating Mellifluously” basically just confirms everything we already knew about computer grading. Nothing to see here. Keep moving. Still reading? Oh. Fine then. The article is about the new “e-rater” by the Educational Testing Service (ETS), which can grade 16,000 essays in…
Death of Campus Bookstores/Birth of Digital Textbooks, Apple style
| January 21, 2012 | Posted by Josh Boldt under Activism, Arts & Humanities, Education, Technology |
I have no sympathy whatsoever for campus bookstores. Their business model has always been one of exploitation. For decades, campus bookstores have made almost no effort to adapt to changing trends in the book industry. They have continued to sell textbooks to students at unconscionable prices, and offer the most meager exchange rate imaginable when…
Experiments in Multimodal Composition: Going Beyond the Traditional Paper in Freshman Writing Classes
| November 25, 2011 | Posted by Josh Boldt under Education, Teaching, Technology |
This semester I’ve been doing a lot of experimentation in my freshmen writing classes. Mainly in the form of multimodal composition. I really want to challenge the boundaries of what it means to “compose” pieces of communication. The traditional written essay is fast fading–both with regard to student interest, and also with relevance to contemporary…
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