I’ve been reading a slew of interesting – and often depressing – links from academia from the end of 2010. Flavia’s entry on students sharing …

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It is with much excitement and gratitude that I again have the good fortune to be a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and …

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With the end of the semester comes the opportunity to review what students think of my teaching. As a (relatively) new teacher I take the …

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One of my favorite blogs is MIT’s Tomorrow’s Professor, and I particularly appreciate the essay on Explaining the Reasons for Criticisms of Students …

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My sense in teaching over the past four years is that I have been assessing higher grades. (I shy from the term “giving grades” as …

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I have fallen out of the habit of posting updates at the beginning and the end of the semesters. (Mostly because I’m not a …

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Chris Anderson’s “apparent plagiarism” of Wikipedia has prompted me to post something I was experimenting with last week about citations and URLs. Anderson claims …

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At the beginning of this year, I was sad to learn of the passing of Peter Kollock. He was one of the first to carefully …

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I recently finished two works about the “free culture” movement, each of which are polar opposites – and in a way that is unsettling. The most …

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Given my interest in Wikipedia, pseudo-science, and skepticism I’m fond of works which at least help us identify the implicit (social) concepts we invoke …

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