But a growing body of evidence shows that over all, college students learn less when they use computers or tablets during lectures. They also tend to earn worse grades. The research is unequivocal: Laptops distract from learning, both for users and for those around them. It’s not much of a leap to expect that electronics also undermine learning in high school classrooms or that they hurt productivity in meetings in all kinds of workplaces.
28 November 2017
17 November 2017
Public Humanities Fellowships
ask me about this if you're interested:
2018-2019 Institute for Advanced Studies for the Humanities (IASH) Graduate Student Public Humanities Fellowship
In Partnership with Humanities New York
The Institute for Advanced studies for the Humanities (IASH) and Humanities New York
announce the call for applicants for the 2018-2019 Graduate Student Public Humanities
Fellowship.
The Graduate Student Public Humanities Fellowship was developed by Humanities
New York in partnership with nine New York research universities to bring humanities
scholarship into the public realm, encourage emerging humanities scholars to conceive
of their work in relation to the public sphere, develop scholars’ skills for doing public
work, and strengthen the public humanities community in New York State. The year-
long Fellowship will involve a combination of training in the methods and approaches of
the public humanities and work by the Fellow to develop a public project related to their
own scholarship in partnership with a community organization.
The skills and experiences afforded by the Fellowship are intended to serve scholars
who have a record of working with the public as well as those who are starting to
explore the public humanities. It is equally valuable for scholars who plan to pursue
careers within the academy and those who plan to pursue other career paths.
2018-2019 Institute for Advanced Studies for the Humanities (IASH) Graduate Student Public Humanities Fellowship
In Partnership with Humanities New York
The Institute for Advanced studies for the Humanities (IASH) and Humanities New York
announce the call for applicants for the 2018-2019 Graduate Student Public Humanities
Fellowship.
The Graduate Student Public Humanities Fellowship was developed by Humanities
New York in partnership with nine New York research universities to bring humanities
scholarship into the public realm, encourage emerging humanities scholars to conceive
of their work in relation to the public sphere, develop scholars’ skills for doing public
work, and strengthen the public humanities community in New York State. The year-
long Fellowship will involve a combination of training in the methods and approaches of
the public humanities and work by the Fellow to develop a public project related to their
own scholarship in partnership with a community organization.
The skills and experiences afforded by the Fellowship are intended to serve scholars
who have a record of working with the public as well as those who are starting to
explore the public humanities. It is equally valuable for scholars who plan to pursue
careers within the academy and those who plan to pursue other career paths.
13 November 2017
SPEL Workshop rescheduled
the Workshop on "Time Management" has been postponed.
and that is not a joke.
new time:
TUE 21 NOV
11:45 - 1:00
location: IASH Conference Room
and that is not a joke.
new time:
TUE 21 NOV
11:45 - 1:00
location: IASH Conference Room
07 November 2017
big taxes on grad students
in case the previous post wasn't sufficiently clear ....
https://www.axios.com/why-the-gop-tax-plan-could-lead-to-a-brain-drain-2507230986.html
https://www.axios.com/why-the-gop-tax-plan-could-lead-to-a-brain-drain-2507230986.html
05 November 2017
cut cut cut
uh oh.
gotta pay for tax cuts for billionaires somehow.
Right now, tuition support is not counted toward one's gross income for tax purposes. The new GOP bill would strike that exemption.— David A. Walsh (@DavidAstinWalsh) November 5, 2017
gotta pay for tax cuts for billionaires somehow.
02 November 2017
Conference reminder -- on Saturday
Saturday at the Downtown Center ...
9:00AM – 9:30AM Breakfast, Room 224
9:30AM – 10:10AM Ryan Adams: “Dignity and Violence: A Personalist Ethics of Resistance”
10:10AM – 10:50AM Elham Beygi: “Coordination Duty to Disobey the Law in Non-Legitimate States”
10:50AM – 11:05AM Coffee Break, Room 224
11:05AM – 11:45AM Alicja Duda: “A Phenomenological Analysis of Violence and Vulnerability in the El Salvador Civil War”
11:45AM – 12:25PM Wendy Lynne Lee: ” Unsustainable: The Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund; Approach to Resistance and Environmental Justice”
12:25PM – 1:05PM Rachael Flores: “William Morris’ Solution to Marxist Aesthetics”
1:05PM – 2:20PM Lunch, Room 224
2:20PM – 3:00PM Stephen Wrenn: “Failure and Generation”
3:00PM – 3:40PM Steven Powers: “Post-Hope: What’s Left For Us?”
3:40PM – 3:55PM Coffee Break, Room 224
4:00PM – 5:30PM Keynote Gabriel Rockhill: “Standing Before the Law: Toward a Theory of Immanent Normativity”
01 November 2017
Predatory or symbiotic?
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/30/science/predatory-journals-academics.html
But it’s increasingly clear that many academics know exactly what they’re getting into, which explains why these journals have proliferated despite wide criticism. The relationship is less predator and prey, some experts say, than a new and ugly symbiosis.
Many faculty members — especially at schools where the teaching load is heavy and resources few — have become eager participants in what experts call academic fraud that wastes taxpayer money, chips away at scientific credibility, and muddies important research.
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