Throughout my years as a PhD student I’ve been assigned to TA first year courses. This experience has been a sobering one, in that it has been a constant reminder of how the way I think today is not the way the “average Joe” thinks about things. A decade of engagement with the social . . . → Read More: You got some ‘splaining to do! (Social Sciences 101)
|
|||||
|
This concludes my IsraLeft Salvage project, with my first ever post that was based on my academic work – work that was presented at the Association for Israel Studies conference in 2010, and is now going through the arduous process of publication (hopefully). This is me mulling over some ideas by taking what is . . . → Read More: IsraLeft Salvage: Magnanimity: On The Virtues of Ze’ev Jabotinsky Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) is an on-going campaign by some Palestinian and pro-Palestinian groups, calling for – well – boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel to nudge it towards the end of occupation and discrimination of Palestinians both within and beyond the green line. It has garnered some support internationally, and even among . . . → Read More: Why I oppose BDS A new study published by Project Information Literacy argues that professors aren’t cognizant enough of the needs of the digital-native generation, and provide the wrong kind of information in assignment handouts. The argument, as I understand it from skimming the full paper (pdf), is that professors demand too much in the way of independent . . . → Read More: How the Digital-Native myth is hurting students |
|||||
|
|
|||||
