https://pinboard.in/u:mcmorgan/public/ recent bookmarks from mcmorgan 2021-09-13T14:33:11+00:00 https://academeblog.org/2021/09/12/yes-these-bills-are-the-new-mccarthyism/ mcmorgan Yet it is also a new chapter in the decades-long campaign to roll back the changes that have brought the real world into those classrooms. In one state after another, reactionary and opportunistic politicians are joining that broader campaign to overturn the 1960s’ democratization of American life. By attacking the CRT bogeyman and demonizing contemporary academic culture and the critical perspectives that it can produce, the current limitations on what can be taught endanger teachers at every level, while the know-nothingism these measures encourage endangers us all.]]> education mccarthyism trump deceit https://pinboard.in/u:mcmorgan/b:f9e28286771f/ 2020-06-20T16:42:30+00:00 https://academeblog.org/2020/06/19/poll-highlights-sobering-toll-of-coronavirus-on-students/ mcmorgan disconnect education covid-19 universities https://pinboard.in/u:mcmorgan/b:dc15dbb36ef8/ 2020-03-16T14:35:00+00:00 https://academeblog.org/2020/03/16/teaching-in-the-time-of-coronavirus-part-ii/ mcmorgan This was confirmed last Wednesday when I quizzed them about their loud negative reaction to the college’s closing. Few of the students like the online tools we use every day; none of them sees the move online in a positive light. They feel their educations are being disrupted and suspect that the replacement they are being offered is a sham. > And it is. [...] > Most educators have a somewhat cynical view of student attitudes. We think that, like most of the rest of society, they have bought into the factory model of education, that they are in school only to get the degrees that will further their upward movement in society. We forget that many of them are actually interested in learning—even though they may appear to be sleepwalking through at least some of their courses. They want their degrees to mean something, to be more than just magical pieces of paper. > Our students, of course, are shoved into as difficult a situation by coronavirus as we are. This is no vacation for them, and they know it. They also recognize that the colleges and universities are lying to them through the very act of replacing their classes with online approximations—though they, too, know the lying may be necessary. They feel frustrated, for they do not want to delay their progress toward their degrees; they feel they have no choice but to accept what is happening. But they do not like it and some of them feel—and are—technologically unprepared for the new situation. Though almost all of them have smartphones, not everyone has a computer at home for writing papers. The lying isn’t necessary; but the universities are not in a position to offer much more than online versions right now. That’s our fault. The unwelcome move online might reveal another crack in the papered-over system. We’ll need to repair things later. We’ll need to repair a lot of things Later. But, Barlow suggests, we need to change teaching and learning Right Now. > If we work at it, it may prove better than anything we have done before, though it will not be categorizable and will not even be the online coursework we are trying to ram down our throats and our students’ throats. ]]> coronavirus education de https://pinboard.in/u:mcmorgan/b:d56c3de486fb/ 2020-03-15T18:28:33+00:00 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/15/oi-cummings-leave-those-lefty-kids-alone-students-stewart-lee?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other mcmorgan Last week Policy Exchange tried to make liberal higher educational institutions the next bogeypersons in the Rightwing Coup’s culture war, another target in an ongoing parade of necessary phantoms. They have run out of nasties like the EU are turning on their own tail: > Turning Point UK, the British incarnation of a wealthy American rightwing youth organisation, endorsed by the child-friendly Conservative luminaries Priti Patel and Jacob Rees-Mogg, is aiming to compile a student snitches’ website listing the dangerous leftwing academics exposing our kids to their anti-racist mathematics and frayed corduroy jackets. We’re in university to get Educated: live on mac and cheese, listen to punk with buddies and prog rock secretly, read tediously long and complex novels, and party. So why turn on the students? Instead, start your own. > Why don’t Policy Exchange, Turning Point UK, Toby Young’s X-Men of Shits, and the Freedom Association just set up their own universities, teaching climate-emergency denial, anti-trade union theory, progressive eugenics and political correctness gone mad? Universities are supposed to be leftwing, daddio! And so are students. Ok, Boomer? ]]> uk rhetoric education culture_wars https://pinboard.in/u:mcmorgan/b:82828c5cd630/ 2019-12-29T16:21:58+00:00 https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2019/12/how-to-hypothetically-hack-your-schools-surveillance-system/ mcmorgan Balan listed off several easily foreseeable scenarios in which relatively untested school-wide surveillance systems put data in the hands of faculty. An evildoer can carry out a man-in-the-middle attack on any network, injecting downloads with malicious code. An impersonation attacker could spoof a Bluetooth identifier. A bad teacher with access to location data could stalk a student; a good teacher with a dumb password could be easily hacked. “Say I’m a teacher, and my password is Whitney123,” Balan postulated. “Arguably, out of ten thousand students, someone is going to try that password.” > If school surveillance looks anything like school security, he says, a “password123” blunder ranks high on the list of probabilities; Balan calls the present state of security tech in public spaces like hospitals and university campuses “a disaster.” “The software and operating systems are outdated, and passwords are leaked,” he said. “Surveillance cameras are on the same network as other computers, and the access to that network would be the word ‘password.’ And by no means was this an isolated case.” It’s an opportunity for guerrilla theatre. How about hacking a classroom to show all students present all the time. How about sitting down at all entrances to an admin building - blocking them in or out. How about spamming the D2L message system with Wham! lyrics. > Vick countered with an offer to students: >> If you are at one of these schools asking you to install apps on your phone to track you, hit me up for some totally hypothetical academic ideas on how one might dismantle such a system. > We’re always up for hacker class, so Vick supplied Gizmodo with a few theories for inquiring minds.]]> education privacy d2l universities surveillance lms https://pinboard.in/u:mcmorgan/b:d5bce75f7b3b/ 2019-11-21T22:00:49+00:00 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/21/opinion/donald-trump-jr-university-of-florida.html mcmorgan corruption trump politics education https://pinboard.in/u:mcmorgan/b:93641227ee2e/ 2019-07-01T13:40:00+00:00 https://academeblog.org/2019/06/30/its-time-to-move-away-from-the-digital-classroom-in-our-smartphone-altered-universe/ mcmorgan Education administrators who have bought into the various digital-platform models, on the other hand, have long seen their avenues of digital instruction as a way to reduce reliance on teachers by regularizing curricula through digital replication and turning the teachers into overseers, people there simply to solve problems as students take more and more control of their education. The digital, these people dreamed, could make most teachers redundant. > Though student control of their own education is a laudable goal, that’s not the only goal of those pushing online education. Cost-cutting and streamlining are even more important ends. Producing a workforce augmentation implemented seamlessly also is. > The growth of the student as a person and a citizen is not. Education, as we have defined it in the United States (until recently), is not. > Thing is, the digital landscape our students inhabit has changed dramatically since the old assumptions about digital utility in education were formulated. The smartphone has become student interface with much of the world, including families and, yes, classrooms. Anyone simply looking around today can see that the smartphone should be changing all of assumptions about utility of digital tools–but it hasn’t. ]]> education DE academia2.0 https://pinboard.in/u:mcmorgan/b:591df88a1082/ 2018-10-19T14:29:17+00:00 http://hackeducation.com/2018/10/18/skinner mcmorgan I would argue, in total seriousness, that one of the places that Skinnerism thrives today is in computing technologies, particularly in “social” technologies. This, despite the field’s insistence that its development is a result, in part, of the cognitive turn that supposedly displaced behaviorism. Add to this the LMS, education design, the modern nation state. Cog science never replaced the Skinner box. ]]> design history behaviorism education https://pinboard.in/u:mcmorgan/b:3684af84eeb6/ 2018-10-12T14:41:01+00:00 https://poseidon01.ssrn.com/delivery.php?ID=616064002106075068117018119026124121037016025093044007014073016026003099074069118120028062030124045033010026079086086097124119046083078061083097079024065090098095020028071121068067068123098118066121096092121125066096112101103121099092075089096007&EXT=pdf mcmorgan ‘Big data,’ I argue, is not a technology or an inevitable technology effect. It is not an autonomous process, as Schmidt and others would have us think. It originates in the social, and it is there that we must find it and know it. In this article I explore the proposition that ‘big data’ is above all the foundational component in a deeply intentional and highly consequential new logic of accumulation that I call surveil- lance capitalism. This new form of information capitalism aims to predict and modify human behavior as a means to produce revenue and market control. ]]> education BigData capitalism https://pinboard.in/u:mcmorgan/b:a4dbd004e501/ 2018-02-18T18:09:47+00:00 https://hapgood.us/2018/02/18/recognition-is-futile-why-checklist-approaches-to-information-literacy-fail-and-what-to-do-about-it/ mcmorgan fakenews openeducation mooc #en3177 education infoliteracy https://pinboard.in/u:mcmorgan/b:522881ed29ed/ 2017-06-09T13:32:27+00:00 http://hackeducation.com/2017/06/09/personalization mcmorgan But “personalization” is not simply how we cope with our desire for individuality in an age of mass production, of course. It’s increasingly how we’re sold things. It’s how we are profiled, how we are segmented, how we are advertised to. ]]> education globalcapitalism https://pinboard.in/u:mcmorgan/b:07211d0ebb5f/ 2017-05-25T16:21:41+00:00 http://hackeducation.com/2017/05/24/new-normal mcmorgan Education needs to change, we have long been told. It is outmoded. Inefficient. And this “new normal” – in an economic sense much more than a pedagogical one – has meant schools have been tasked to “do more with less” and specifically to do more with new technologies which promise greater efficiency, carrying with them the values of business and markets rather than the values of democracy or democratic education.]]> education https://pinboard.in/u:mcmorgan/b:0fe1682ac1d5/ 2015-09-26T18:01:38+00:00 http://www.elearnspace.org/blog/ mcmorgan globalcapitalism dehumanization Higher edtech education https://pinboard.in/u:mcmorgan/b:2fc110d4dc86/ 2015-08-08T21:11:37+00:00 http://www.elearnspace.org/blog/2015/08/03/white-house-innovation-in-higher-education/ mcmorgan education disruption https://pinboard.in/u:mcmorgan/b:2895cc2b7ca8/ 2014-06-22T15:02:45+00:00 http://hackeducation.com/2013/10/17/student-data-is-the-new-oil/ mcmorgan fyc a&e d2l education https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:mcmorgan/b:00217967fd72/ 2013-01-25T23:26:36+00:00 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