http://writinginthewild.com "nothing natural about it!" Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:00:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://writinginthewild.com/2011/12/19/juxtaposition-and-critical-thinking/ http://writinginthewild.com/2011/12/19/juxtaposition-and-critical-thinking/#comments Mon, 19 Dec 2011 21:58:03 +0000 Ray Watkins http://writinginthewild.com/?p=5167 Continental European capitalism, which combines generous health and social benefits with reasonable working hours, long vacation periods, early retirement, and relatively equal income distributions, would seem to have everything to recommend it – except sustainability. "Is Modern Capitalism Sustainable"-- Kenneth Rogoff Mike Konczal assembles some striking quotes from Federal Reserve transcripts showing how obsessed the monetary overlords are with keeping wages down. I won’t recycle any of the quotes—check out his post for the full flavor. "The Fed and the Class Struggle" -- Doug Henwood Here's an juxtaposition that might be used to teach critical thinking. The contrast between these two ways of seeing the economy isn't simply a matter of right and wrong, yes and no, or even "subject positions," although that...]]> http://writinginthewild.com/2011/12/19/juxtaposition-and-critical-thinking/feed/ 0 http://writinginthewild.com/2011/09/27/our-latest-myth-adaptive-learning/ http://writinginthewild.com/2011/09/27/our-latest-myth-adaptive-learning/#comments Tue, 27 Sep 2011 14:14:18 +0000 Ray Watkins http://writinginthewild.com/?p=4874 bourgeois individualism that underlies so much of U.S. education. It really shows up when you talk about grading and commenting on papers. Students need, it is said, what is called "individual" help. Of course, students are members of cultures, and so the help we give is often as collective as it is individual. There's nothing unique or individual about the conventions of writing. Most students need "collective" help with their writing; they need to understand that it's not all personal expression. Facebook writing has it's conventions as much as college writing .  We don't always teach individual expression,  as often as not...]]> http://writinginthewild.com/2011/09/27/our-latest-myth-adaptive-learning/feed/ 0