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LEGO Americana Roadshow: Building Across America I just checked out this traveling exhibition from LEGO and was quite impressed. The scale ... -
When we let politics trump science, people are needlessly put in harm's way. http://arstechnica.com/science/2017/01/self-censoring-fears...
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Thank you, Lego, for letting me simply tell you online which parts were missing from the boy's Christmas present and sending them to me,...
Hey! I have that superpower too!!
ReplyDeleteI think we could generalize this by just drawing in a blank space for the last clause. For me, the last clause is currently 'cleaning the house.'
ReplyDeleteThe trick Craig Froehle is to avoid something else, worse (like cleaning) so that you procrastinate to avoid cleaning by grading. ;') Could be a new energy source: "The Power of Negative Thinking!"
ReplyDeleteA friend of ours teaches law, and routinely disappears for grading. I always volunteer to help, and she never takes me up on it. Ingrate!
ReplyDeleteYou're a professor?
ReplyDeleteSordatos Cáceres To whom is that question directed? If me, yes, I am.
ReplyDeleteMeg Tufano I honestly can't think of anything I do regularly that I loathe more than grading essays.
ReplyDeleteI know others with that power... they fervently wish it away...
ReplyDeleteWhy USA is so obsessed with essays?
ReplyDeleteCraig Froehle I deeply sympathize! I teach at Antioch University (Online) and we (blessedly) have a Virtual Writing Center to which my students have to submit THREE drafts. Then, I make them submit their paper along with a precis of the paper (half page, double-spaced). This way, by the time I read the paper? The BS stuff has been dealt with (grammar, APA format, etc.) and I can just grade for content. If I do not understand their precis? I am pretty sure where I'll be going with their grade. ;')
ReplyDeleteJust give them each a C.
ReplyDeleteMeg Tufano Precis?
ReplyDeleteSteve S Statistically valid, sort of.
ReplyDeleteSordatos Cáceres Because I can't adequately judge how well a student understands a complex issue from multiple-choice questions.
ReplyDeletePass the papers around, we'll all grade a few of em.
ReplyDeleteWhat's the subject?
Sordatos Cáceres Sorry, that’s the same as an Abstract.
ReplyDeleteCraig Froehle I suspect there are profs out there giving FU A’s.
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