“You can’t be neutral on a moving train”
— Howard Zinn
As universities go, the ethos of my home institution is relatively conservative.
Conservative parents believe their children will maintain conservative values by
While written assignments are typically growing in length in line with the
ever-expanding volume of resources available to student writers, platforms like
Twitter demand more succinct approaches to writing and offer a range
“What should academics do on Twitter?”
At a recent roundtable workshop on developing a professional academic digital
identity, I heard the first four speakers address that question which I have
heard so many
This piece first appeared on Educating Modern Learners
[http://modernlearners.com/on-social-media-silence-and-things-that-matter/].
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> The Twitter format lends itself to excitement, leaping out, connecting with
people over content, not into content, and offers opportunities for people to
make what they want of out of journal article
The idea of publics is central to scholarship. Scholarly pursuits are financed
in part through public purses, and scholarship — in its idealized form, at least
— contributes back to publics. Research. Knowledge. The public
How do we know if the new ‘it’ technology will work in our classroom? Will it
create meaningful learning for our students, or even for ourselves as educators?
As an educator whose research
Twitter is an incredibly dynamic digital tool that can create spaces of
flattened hierarchies. These spaces can fuel inclusive pedagogy. But before
teaching with Twitter, instructors have to think about how to use
Hashtags are taxonomic and pedagogical tools (with citation standards to boot
[http://www.theverge.com/2012/3/8/2853518/modern-language-association-standard-format-citing-tweets]
).The Twitter hashtag was born in 2007
[http://gigaom.com/2010/04/30/
I was roused from my teaching this week by the cacophony of tweets and blog
posts on the merits and pitfalls of tweeting another scholar’s ideas (the most
cited ones authored or
Consider the tangible violence technology has wrought upon grammar. We rely on
automated grammar and spell-check tools in word-processing software (so much
that they’ve become a crutch). E-mail shorthand fails to live
