{"id":3659,"date":"2009-05-07T05:01:27","date_gmt":"2009-05-07T05:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/05\/07\/links-for-2009-05-07\/"},"modified":"2009-05-07T05:01:27","modified_gmt":"2009-05-07T05:01:27","slug":"links-for-2009-05-07","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/05\/07\/links-for-2009-05-07\/","title":{"rendered":"links for 2009-05-07"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/arts\/books\/reviews\/56139\/\">&#8216;Columbine,&#8217; by Dave Cullen &#8212; New York Magazine Book Review<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Most of what you think you know about the Columbine school shooting is wrong.<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/society\">society<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/books\">books<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/review\">review<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/history\">history<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/media\">media<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.swarthmore.edu\/burke\/?p=825\">The Laptop in the Classroom \u00c2\u00ab Easily Distracted<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;I am sure there are students in my classes who have multitasked during a lecture or discussion. I\u00e2\u0080\u0099ll be honest with you. I\u00e2\u0080\u0099ve done the same on my laptop when I\u00e2\u0080\u0099ve been in the audience during conferences or lectures, usually email. I\u00e2\u0080\u0099ve done that in response to being bored, but I\u00e2\u0080\u0099ve also done it as a kind of thoughtful doodling while feeling quite engaged and interested in what the speaker is saying and taking copious notes. So it doesn\u00e2\u0080\u0099t worry or offend me that a student might be doing the same. If it\u00e2\u0080\u0099s because they\u00e2\u0080\u0099re bored, that\u00e2\u0080\u0099s an issue with my presentation. (Though I\u00e2\u0080\u0099m not going to take responsibility for getting universal engagement: you can\u00e2\u0080\u0099t get blood from a stone, and some students are stones.) If the audience is still being thoughtful, taking good notes, and retaining information while multitasking, why should I care?&quot;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/education\">education<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/academia\">academia<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/technology\">technology<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/easily-distracted\">easily-distracted<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/yglesias.thinkprogress.org\/archives\/2009\/05\/how-not-to-form-a-union.php\">Matthew Yglesias \u00c2\u00bb How (Not) to Form a Union<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">A helpful animation explaining how labor law is stacked against workers who would like to organize.<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/politics\">politics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/US\">US<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/video\">video<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/class-war\">class-war<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/youtube\">youtube<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/business\">business<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/yglesias\">yglesias<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/suburbdad.blogspot.com\/2009\/05\/sometimes-facts-actually-matter.html\">Confessions of a Community College Dean: Sometimes, Facts Actually Matter<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;I&#8217;m not usually a fan of persnickety statistical critiques, but this strikes me as fundamental. The official public voice of community colleges in America, for reasons I personally can&#8217;t fathom, is promulgating profoundly misleading data on our behalf. &quot;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/education\">education<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/academia\">academia<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/society\">society<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/statistics\">statistics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/class-war\">class-war<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/dean-dad\">dean-dad<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.graphpaper.com\/2009\/05-02_who_watches_the_watchman\">graphpaper.com &#8211; Who Watches the Watchman?<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;Let\u00e2\u0080\u0099s say you own a big building full of valuable stuff. How do you make sure that the night watchman patrolling your factory floor or museum galleries after closing time actually makes his rounds? How do you know he\u00e2\u0080\u0099s inspecting every hallway, floor, and stairwell in the facility? How do you know he (or she) is not just spending every night sleeping at his desk?&quot;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/gadgets\">gadgets<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/history\">history<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/security\">security<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/technology\">technology<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Columbine,&#8217; by Dave Cullen &#8212; New York Magazine Book Review Most of what you think you know about the Columbine school shooting is wrong. (tags: society books review history media) The Laptop in the Classroom \u00c2\u00ab Easily Distracted &quot;I am sure there are students in my classes who have multitasked during a lecture or discussion.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/05\/07\/links-for-2009-05-07\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">links for 2009-05-07<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_dump","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}