Yet another business person on the importance of writing “correctly” to hiring and working in the real world published in the Harvard Business Review. I tell students every year the LJW and the KC Star post similar letters from business leaders that decry the inability of students to write and the importance thereof for students who want a job. Stanley Fish has spoken to this, and I pull his NYT editorials into comp 2 discussions.
And further onthe topic of andragogy, the NYT asks important questions about the role of face to face (F2F) vs online classes. A quote:
A truly memorable college class, even a large one, is a collaboration between teacher and students. It’s a one-time-only event. Learning at its best is a collective enterprise, something we’ve known since Socrates. You can get knowledge from an Internet course if you’re highly motivated to learn. But in real courses the students and teachers come together and create an immediate and vital community of learning. A real course creates intellectual joy, at least in some. I don’t think an Internet course ever will.
I disagree that internet classes can’t be collaborative and engender a sense of community, but that is a challenge we face in any college classroom, especially in non-residential community colleges. This is why attendance is critical. You have to be present to engage.
And also on the topic – sort of – and I’m including the link because I don’t want to lose it, and I’m not at my desk – Matt Damon defends teaching as a vocation and explains why teachers might choose a profession for reasons other than cash.
