InterVarsity Christian Fellowship's Emerging Scholars Network (ESN) interrupts their regularly scheduled programming to bring you the transcript (with minor edits) of a presentation given by Bob Trube, Senior Area Director, IVCF/USA, at the IFES World Assembly (Oaxtepec, Mexico, 7/22/2015). In considering The University Today, Bob addresses four "change" forces in the university that offer both challenges to and opportunities for mission in the university. After presenting, he received a number of requests for … [Read more...] about The University Today: Challenges and Opportunities
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Jurassic July: Look, Don’t Touch
The final post in a series on the Jurassic Park films, mainly Jurassic Park and Jurassic World. We will be discussing the films in detail, so spoilers are possible but will be kept to a minimum. I don't believe anyone actually invokes the name Frankenstein in any of the Jurassic Park films, but the specter of the mad doctor and his monster loom large. The main lesson we seem to have learned from Mary Shelley's story is that you don't mix and match when it comes to nature. (As with Sherlock Holmes' deerstalker, … [Read more...] about Jurassic July: Look, Don’t Touch
Book Review: Teaching Naked
Teaching Naked: How Moving Technology Out of Your College Classroom Will Improve Student Learning by Jose A. Bowen My rating: 4 of 5 stars The subtitle of this book actually explains the attention-grabbing title of this book. Bowen contends that the onslaught of technological resources that in the minds of many jeopardize traditional higher education can in fact enhance the basic thing professors and teachers do in the classroom–advance student learning. And the way this occurs is for those who teach to … [Read more...] about Book Review: Teaching Naked
Addressing Loneliness in 2014
The Innovation of Loneliness from Shimi Cohen on Vimeo. Yes, I posted The Innovation of Loneliness in Reclaiming Conversations (9/12/2013) when considering some of the work of Sherry Turkle and offering Transformative Conversations as a resource. But the recent attention given to Saving the Lost Art of Conversation: In a fast-paced digital age, an MIT psychologist tries to slow us down (Megan Garber. The Atlantic. 12/22/2013), an extensive amount of time on-line in the midst of the holidays[1], a lengthy … [Read more...] about Addressing Loneliness in 2014
Reclaiming Conversations?
"Reclaiming conversations, that's the next frontier." -- Sherry Turkle's [1] concluding line to her TEDxUIUC 2011 presentation Alone Together. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtLVCpZIiNs This morning David O'Hara's Can I Ask Questions In Church? [2] spurred me to read Jaweed Kaleem's Keeping Alive The Big Questions [3]. In Kaleem's resource rich article I once again came across Sherry Turkle, Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology in the Program in Science, … [Read more...] about Reclaiming Conversations?