Actually, that doesn’t sound quite right, but it is a great way to launder my lateness.

I’m not sure that sounds right either.

But the points are here even if my brain is not (or perhaps this IS my brain, shudder):

1. You’re absolutely right about the Chronicle. I enjoy Inside Higher Ed a lot more. What I really want, though, is some regular and serious investigative journalism about Higher Ed. The new book “Higher Education?” may spark some movement in that direction–hey, it’s blurbed by Jonathon Kozol, whom I trust.

2. You and all the commenters above point to the real tragedy here: what counts as “academic,” and who gets to determine that, comes out of an increasingly self-serving set of privileged voices. Leigh will say I’m being too moderate here, and maybe he’s right–but I’m not giving up on colleges and universities (or the Bill of Rights) until I have to.

3. Along those lines: I hadn’t seen the Library video. Wowser. How lovely that no one asking about FERPA or credit hours or “how would you grade that?” got in the way of the students’ flourishing imaginations–or their determination to make something cool. Good to know school can still inspire such things….

Thanks for this post.

Nice post, sir dog. I like the Old Spice Guy twist.

I realize that the lack of control of the medium is hard for many of our seasoned academics out there. So, rather than fighting the rip tide of social media, why aren’t teachers teaching their students how to go with the tide and use its force and momentum to move us along as learners?

I daresay a quick YouTube search for Old Spice mashups might have returned the BYU one…and about 700 more…so let’s teach of faculty and our studnts the skills they need to find the stuff they want or to question the stuff they are not certain about.

Is it just me or have we been barking up this tree for way too long?

gack.

I went to YouTube/edu, first hit on “mitosis”: a lecture on mitosis:

http://www.youtube.com/edu?edu_search_query=mitosis&action_search=1

And cat videos are awesome, better than most tv I say.

Absolutely right about the wihdrawal of the Chronicle from comment, and the way it sucks communities in to engage in an almost Ralph Ellison-like scene (something out of his classic Invisible Man’s first chapter Battle Royale) over the worst elements of a broekn system while they watch from their seats smoking the proverbial cigar.

In fact, your blog these days is pushing me back towards Ellison for some reason, seems like you and he have your fingers on the slippery slope of ideology, indoctrination, and existentialism.