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Never take your rights, or your education, for granted. Happy International Women’s Day.
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Like, fine, you don’t like me or think my work is worthwhile, I really don’t need you to repeat the things I hear in my head over and over again.
But this isn’t about me.
When you say “journalism is 100% plagiarism” or approvingly reblog that statement you’re denigrating the work of a whole bunch of people who put their lives on the line at times, who spend their own money and live on the shit pay that freelance work does and don’t sleep and get arrested and spend years on work like this:
Thousands of Kids Lost Parents in US Deportation System
How Stop and Frisk is Too Often a Sexual Assault by Cops on Teenagers in Targeted NYC Neighborhoods
What It’s Like With No Power, No Running Water and Little Food Post-Sandy
The Uncertain Fate of Pennsylvania’s Juvenile Lifers
Across Wall, Little Interest in Israeli Race
And these are literally just the examples off the top of my head of work done by people I actually know.
This is “journalism.” This is the work that is undervalued and underpaid and takes guts and sweat and support. And when you write it off, you contribute to a culture that continues to devalue this work. You’re damn right I take it seriously. These are people’s lives.
You guys know I have a comics podcast, right? We’re live again tonight and you can call in or tweet us questions.
I’m going to analyze just how and why Young Avengers #1 was so awesome and why Kate Bishop is James Bond.
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I got a marketing survey from one of the legal publishers. The questions were typically asinine. One asked whether I preferred “unique” or “traditional” teaching styles. Yes, a major publisher of educational material actually misused the word “unique” to mean “innovative”.
But I liked the last question:
Looking ahead to the future, what types of materials or development can you envision that will help aid you in teaching more productively or help you to produce better outcomes with your students?
To which I responded:
An artificially intelligent robot to grade exams for me. And artificially intelligent students to take them.
That would really rock my world.
I’ve noticed a steady stream of bellyaching about your exam tomorrow. One of the persistent themes is that the exam isn’t worth studying for, because it’s pass/fail. Apparently, you are suffering from a severe mass delusion, so let me clear it up for you: The point of the class and the test is to prepare you for the bar exam. That’s also pass/fail. But it’s kind of important. Y’all need to stop whining and start buckling down.
Kthxbai, Your Caring Professor Who Really Wants To See You Succeed and Not Blow Thousands of Dollars of Tuition.
The latest lie being spread online is that union workers kept non-union workers from assisting in storm recovery. Lie debunked here:http://blog.al.com/breaking/2012/11/huntsville_utilities_denies_cl.html but will surely continue to circulate in the bosses’ echo chamber.
