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November 17, 2004
let's try this again: in the comments, TAKE TWO
my blog has been living in the comments.
Collin posts today (or rather, late last night) something that I identify with on several levels, the most important level being the one in which I link here to him for the sake of posting and linking but not for the sake of really being able to add anything thoughtful or to engage with it.
IN OTHER BORING NEWS:
From yesterday: Hannah thinks I cannot help her with her math homework because "[I] grew up in the old days. [I] did take second grade, but they didn't know then what they are teaching kids now."
Jack says to me, after I demonstrate that I CAN count to 85: "Mom, you did that as fast as a pig could do it!!" I still am not certain whether that was a compliment or a cut down.
A final NOTE TO SELF:
You cannot think a 307 class full of management students will be moved to think by either of the following:
The New Work Order: Behind the Language of New Capitalism
In fact, the comments in class will be things like:
"You only live once."
"It's not what's RIGHT, it's what's RIGHT NOW."
"I simply don't think about it [the ingredients in bologna, someone being paid 3c to make her shirt, etc]."
"Ignorance IS bliss. What's wrong with that?"
Posted by mryonker at November 17, 2004 03:22 PM
Comments
You are not encouraging me to teach 307! It's enough of a struggle to persuade not all but any of the Newhouse students in 109 that they will ever under any circumstances need to write anything but journalism.
Posted by: senioritis at November 17, 2004 08:56 PM
I'm with you on this one. I thought I chose smaller goals this time around with 307. They balked at reading Linked--network theory is just common sense after all, and this guy keeps overanalyzing everything. Then they stared at me blankly when I gave them a few pages of an article from Harvard Business Review (oh, what does HBR know, anywho) on Cultural Intelligence.
At least bunches of them actually think I do know something about writing.
Posted by: Susan at November 17, 2004 09:58 PM