In other news, GUESS WHO HAS A PUBLICATION not with a publishing company/journal but who cares! PUBLICATION
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It's that time of the year where I'm grading many essays. My English 4 students are wrapping up their novels and good ole theme essays and my Eng 101 students' semester is at an end, so I'm evaluating arguments and preparing them for Eng 102.
Over the decades, I've gotten better at this. I'm a quick grader, but it takes a toll. This year I've been harping on them learning to better incorporate quotes into their work. Easier said than done. The student writer doesn't really learn until they do. They remember the rhetoric, structures, and other teachings, if they're paying attention, but until they try to practice what they've learned, they don't pick up good writing habits. I get half my students dumping quotes into essays as if quotes speak for themselves.
I get a lot of teachers worrying over student stamina and attentiveness these days. But I feel it's about the same it's always been with writing students. A few in each class shine and illustrate genuine learning and care. A good bunch reach for success but are mired in bad habits, sometimes (maybe often) taught to them by other teachers. And some just aren't writers and don't give an effort enough to flex those writing muscles. I'm not seeing that generational difference that some see.
What I do see is that we are asked as teachers and students to care more about grades than we are about discourse about the work we do and the important narratives about that work that would likely develop otherwise. I had a student today more interested in the type of A she was going to receive than interested in why she was assessed lower than she expected. (She isn't incorporating quotes well, insisting the reader make connections, and so not really mastering control of her prose.) She felt let down by her grade. I was like, hey, let's talk about your work which is over all wonderful but let's focus on where you have room to grow. The grading at this point was interfering with the opportunity to learn. Her sense of achievement not in the possibilities present in the discourse but mired in the accumulation of dead points.
And so it is with most students in high school. Even the poor student who struggles to pass has learned to focus on enough points to pass rather than to puzzle their way to better study habits in conversation with their teacher. I find it horrifying that we blame students for their perspective which I feel is daily taught to them, reinforced until they are habituated accountants.
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I know I'm not posting much lately but I started a new job and--yeah
And it's not that I don't think abt Metallica, it's more like that my thoughts go like
"king nothing > memory. Which is not a unpopular opinion, per se, but like. Memory won the continuity live war till 2023. What a world we live in"
And
"WELCOME TO THIS LIFE
BORN INTO THE FIGHT
HERE TO CLAIM YOUR DREAM
Dreams..... No?
Dream SIGULAR. I forgot that it was singular, I sang it plural, here to claim your dreams. Usually in English don't you say "claim your dreamS"? Ohhhhhh, but it's singular bc for james it can't be anything else.
>>>>>'there was no plan b. Plan b, c, d was making plan a work'
This is autobiographical as UN1, which also starts with birth seen as something immediately difficult. But screaming Suicide is more Abt yourself -you, your voice- and something external giving you a hand; while UN1 is others, what others do to you-- till it transforms you"
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I don't know, maybe I'm the one who's expectations are off here. Anyone else feel like the example reply (below the cut) is a good thing for one student to be responding to another student with on a classwide discussion board?
In your reply to others reflect on what you have learned in this chapter and how you can apply this information to your current or future job, your life and or your educational goals.Also, you may want to also include in your reply some information that your fellow learner may have omitted or was unclear about in their own original post.
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This post was a good attempt at answering the prompts, and the author gave a noteworthy try at answering each one. Unfortunately, the author of the post did not provide a thorough response this
time.
In the first prompt, information was provided but was not related back to the question and neither ideas nor information was given the author's interpretation or understanding of the underlying
mechanisms going on. If the textbook was not enough to help the author understand a concept, external resources can easily be used from the library research databases or from a quick internet
search away, or a question clarified with the professor in the Psych Lounge. If some grammatical issues are complicating the process for the author, the internet is also a great source for help that I
use in my own responses. However, the author did use correct APA citations and this is noteworthy and appreciated. It would have also been nice to see more elaboration on the last prompt, which discusses dreaming and its underlying mechanisms, which provides a space for the student to further engage discussion and elaborate on concepts other than merely stating
something.
As you’ve mentioned, selective attention is the ability to tune out the outside world and focus on one object. An example of selective attention is by Moran and Desimone, whom have trained
monkeys as subjects for an experiment of distinguishing colors in their line of vision (Moran & Desimone, 1985 as cited in Myers & Dewall, 2021). In this experiment, the monkeys showed
more response to colors they have been trained to pay attention to and showed less response in those that they weren't trained on. This entails that simultanagnosia is a disorder of selective attention, since one cannot recall more than one object at a time in this state.
The olfactory system is different because it is the only sensory system that receives information directly to the brain, but from like you've stated the molecules and chemicals that are airborne.
The gustatory system differs by being ipsilateral--meaning the process only occurs in that specific
area of the system.
References
Moran, J., & Desimone, R. (1985). Selective attention gates visual processing in the extrastriate cortex. Science, 229 (4715), 782-784.
Myers, D.G. & DeWall, C.N. (2021). Psychology. (13th ed.) Worth Publishers.
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Thank you for your post, I look forward to reading more! Sincerely, A Student
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Teaching English Composition Under the AI Cloud
Teaching English Composition Under the AI Cloud
Dear Fellow English Teacher:
We can start teaching the college composition course less based on procedural knowledge (skills) and more on declarative knowledge (knowing about). That will, radically, involve us in more lectures, objective exams, and maybe one synthesis paper at the end of the semester to demonstrate what students have learned. Perhaps more (very lightly assessed) journaling and…
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The 7 Golden Rules of Communication for Online Meetings
Even as far back as 2020, during the height of the pandemic, research was being conducted on the effectiveness of video conferencing in education, and some such research concluded that online meetings would remain popular long-after the pandemic was over.
An article by Richard James Rogers (Award-Winning Author of The Quick Guide to Classroom Management and The Power of Praise: Empowering Students Through Positive Feedback). This blog post has been beautifully illustrated by Pop Sutthiya Lertyongphati.
Even as far back as 2020, during the height of the pandemic, research was being conducted on the effectiveness of video conferencing in education,…
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English Pedagogy | Part 1 | Understanding Pedagogical Approaches
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Check out the article Dr. Sarah Neville and I wrote on the Database of Early English Playbooks, "Thinking DEEP-ly," if you'd like to teach about some bad quartos and title pages in your Shakespeare courses.
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‘We Were Limpid, So We Were Not Turbid’
‘We Were Limpid, So We Were Not Turbid’
ṣafaw-nā fa-lam nakdur wa-‘aẖlaṣa sirra-nā | ‘ināṯ(un) ‘aṭāba-t ḥamla-nā wa-fuḥūl(u)
A verse of classical Arabic can be tightly packed. Besides immersion in grammar, what’s most useful to this student of the language is a highly Congruent (1) translation. It amounts to what’s called a “trot,” and is the least likely kind of text to be published, which deprives the student of a valuable…
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