Tonight’s class agenda can be found here.
Update: As usual, if you have any questions or concerns, post them them in the comments of this post. I am currently online.
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Agenda for tonight’s class here.
Final Draft of Paper #4 due in the wiki Monday, November 20th
Published November 14th, 2006 in Uncategorized. 0 CommentsOnce again, excellent work with the peer review. I read through the essays as well as the comments and you all are really striking a nice balance between offering both encouragement and a thoughtful critique. Now, take the comments and work through a revision that will be due in the wiki next Monday, November 20th.
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Virtual Class
See the class agenda here.
Assignment for Wednesday, November 15th:
Please post a specific rationale for your research project that exaplains the following things:
What is your argument. Take some time to explain it in some detail, highlighting what, in particular, your research paper will be examining
What do you expect to discover given your research thus far.
Summarize [...]
Paper #4: Paulo Freire’s “The ‘Banking’ Concept of Education”
Published November 10th, 2006 in Uncategorized. 9 CommentsDue Date: Monday, 11/13 by 6pm in the class wiki
Problem-posing education, according to Freire, “sets itself the task of demythologizing”; it “stimulates true reflection and action”; it allows students to be “engaged in inquiry and creative transformation.” These are grand and powerful phrases, and it is interesting to consider what they might mean if applied [...]
Jane Gatewood of the UMW Writing Center passed this along for anyone interested:
Please encourage your students to enter papers written for their 2006 UMW classes in the Writing Intensive Program’s sixteenth annual writing contest. Although the deadline for entering the contest is several months away, February 7, 2007, students may submit their papers this semester.
Attached [...]
10ad.org features two Absolut Vodka ads created by the Media Foundation, a Canadian Political group that publishes the magazine Adbusters.
Read up on the Media Foundation and Adbusters and let me know what you think their take on advertising is in relationship to what we have discussed thus far this semester (use the comments for your [...]
“The ‘Banking’ Concept of Education” by Paulo Freire
Virtual Class
See the class agenda here.
Assignment for Wednesday, November 1st:
Please post a rationale for your research project in your blog by 4:00 pm on Wednesday. I would like you to explain your reason for doing this research (why is it important?), what you expect to discover, and a list of resources you have consulted [...]
Check out this flickr set of kid’s product packaging over the last sixty years! The way products are packaged for children (most notably from my era during Saturday morning cartoon commericals) is something we talked about briefly during class. If any one is interested in this for their research paper there is a great [...]
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