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...especially skilled at analyzing visual data and images, observes Claudia Koonz, professor of history at Duke University. A growing number of college professors are using film, audio clips and PowerPoint presentations to play to their students' strengths and capture their evanescent attention. It's a powerful way to teach history, says Koonz. "I love bringing media into the classroom, to be able to go to the website for Edward R. Murrow and hear his voice as he walked with the liberators of Buchenwald." Another adjustment to teaching Generation M: professors are assigning fewer full-length books and more excerpts...
...Fidel E. Solano said he began to support unionization after the company mistreated him when he had health problems. Allied administrators “do not have respect for the people who really come in to work here,” Solano said. Solano spoke at a teach-in held March 8 by the Students Labor Action Movement (SLAM), a group that is supporting the guards’ unionization efforts. At the event, Solano said: “[Allied says], ‘we’re not going to fire you for starting a union, but we?...
...person can stand up for his opinions. My colleagues say they are now eager to get on with the business of curricular reform that they subordinated for several years to the task of expelling President Summers. The most crucial reform would require ensuring greater intellectual diversity among those who teach the students. The dearth of conservative views (most of which were liberal views when I was an undergraduate) affects the nature of what is being taught, as well as the intellectual mettle of those doing the teaching. Students, irrespective of their own views, are being short-changed by a faculty...
...editors: Re: “Et Tu History,” editorial, Mar. 10. As one of those who teach History 10a, “Western Societies, Politics, and Cultures: From Antiquity to 1650,” I was heartened to see the opinion piece published today. I agree with most of its statements. History 10a does, indeed, offer history concentrators a comprehensive and continuous discussion of the evolution of western societies until the time of the scientific revolution. Many of our students have never had this type of course; many enjoy it a great deal. I agree, too, that...
...Learn to Let Go is more philosophical than narrative, but who knew Buddhist thought had so much jazz and funk in it? The CD is an impressive achievement for the 32-year-old Torontonian, who spends her days traveling in a van full of instruments making house calls to teach music to children...