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Category: Concepts in Educationalist Thought Series
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What you are seeing in the Image of Australian Employment
Featured Image: What the Image is, is a story of the cowboy employment industry in Australia and how governments have continued to allow a deregulated industry to rip off the taxpayer. It is time for accountability against the corrupt (intellectually if not by law). In this example, are three images…
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The Concept of the Level Playing Field
NDB. The Level Playing Field Saturday, 3 August 2024 ONLINE APPLICATION TO WHOM IT CONCERNS Dear Friend, Attached is the draft essay, “The Concept of the Level Playing Field.” I am the sole author and disclaim all associates, colleagues, and interested parties. Against the disclaimer, however,…
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From The Chronicle of Higher Education: Hey You, Academe Political Conformity
Hey You, Are You Listening, Are You Thinking? Mark Moyar, A Conservative Professor on Academe’s Political Conformity: Decades of ideological homogeneity have hurt everyone, The Chronicle of Higher Education, July 30, 2024: In fact, no mobs materialized to bar my path. No leftists showed up to jeer my remarks…
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J. D. Vance’s Insult to America is to Propagandize American Modernism
Jessica Gavora, in The Atlantic (July 25, 2024, 7:31 AM ET) wrote: I thought of Dad last week, when the Republican vice-presidential nominee, J. D. Vance, said something that profoundly misjudged and disrespected his memory. “America is not just an idea,” Vance said in his introductory speech to the American people…
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Why are Vice-Chancellors putting up with it?
“Between 2010 and 2019, UK universities paid more than £1bn in journal subscriptions and other publishing charges. More than 90% of these fees went to the big five commercial publishers (UCL and Manchester shelled out over £4m each). It’s worth remembering that the universities funded this research, paid the salaries of the academics who produced…
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From a quote from out in the world…This is what global persons feel.
“In red states there is a movement to dumb the public. It starts in the educational realm where critical thinking is not simply not taught, it is actively discouraged. If history teach the rest of us that it can repeat itself then citizens of red states are not allowed to hear the full history of…
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How out-of-touch Queensland educational authorities are with the global thinking on assessing learning?
I cannot afford to purchase the book, but it has been saying exactly the concerns I have raised about how out-of-touch Queensland educational authorities are with the global thinking on assessing learning. The reactionary thinkers had taken over and put us in a backward position. New Practices, New Perspectives To grade, or not to grade?…
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Disabling Professions and the Silence of our Fool Policy-Makers
Another friend of mine pointed out the many policy overreaches made and that “Learning has been devalued by those in charge for decades. e.g. university as just the acquisition of job tickets. And assignments that reward end products not learning.” My friend, who I consider as one of the best community educators in theology and…
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The Challenge to the Educational Authorities
A friend of mine, a person who I consider one of Queensland’s top educators in science, pointed out that, “Most academics are unaware that there are AI designed to write undetected, it’s not just chat get.” [joke on ChatGPT; to spell it out for the highly paid fools, “chat get” is not learning] …