{"id":2431,"date":"2012-07-28T23:59:52","date_gmt":"2012-07-29T05:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/?p=2431"},"modified":"2014-09-12T11:58:30","modified_gmt":"2014-09-12T17:58:30","slug":"where-ive-been-weekly-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2012\/07\/28\/where-ive-been-weekly-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Where I’ve Been Online (Weekly: July 22-28)"},"content":{"rendered":"Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> 3<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

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How To Use Learnist | Learnist<\/a><\/h2>\n
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Use Learnist to share what you know and learn new things. Create Learn Boards on topics you understand and add learnings by pointing to videos, blogs, images and documents on the web. Board creation permissions are granted on rolling basis.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0On Leaving Academia \u00ab Ars Experientia<\/a><\/h2>\n
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As almost everybody knows at this point, I have resigned my position at the University of New Mexico. Effective this July, I am working for Google, in their Cambridge (MA) offices.<\/p>\n

Countless people, from my friends to my (former) dean have asked \u201cWhy? Why give up an excellent [some say ‘cushy’] tenured faculty position for the grind of corporate life?\u201d<\/p>\n

Honestly, the reasons are myriad and complex, and some of them are purely personal. But I wanted to lay out some of them that speak to larger trends at UNM, in New Mexico, in academia, and in the US in general. I haven\u2019t made this move lightly, and I think it\u2019s an important cautionary note to make: the factors that have made academia less appealing to me recently will also impact other professors. I\u2019m concerned that the US \u2014 one of the innovation powerhouses of the world \u2014 will hurt its own future considerably if we continue to make educational professions unappealing.<\/p>\n

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10 Things in School That Should Be Obsolete | MindShift<\/a><\/h2>\n
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So much about how and where kids learn has changed over the years, but the physical structure of schools has not. Looking around most school facilities \u2014 even those that aren\u2019t old and crumbling \u2013 it\u2019s obvious that so much of it is obsolete today, and yet still in wide use.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Is it Ethical To Eat Meat? – Hartke Is Online!<\/a><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Thus we come at last to the question of whether it is ethical to eat meat, and the answer is surely a qualified \u2018yes\u2019 \u2013 qualified by the understanding that there is no place in our future for feedlot cattle, pig factories, grain-fed Holstein milk monsters or battery hens. Love rejects such unmitigated cruelty but accepts the highest principles of good husbandry. All living things, including us and our farm animals, are part of the food cycle. We have domesticated plant and animal alike, and we have responsibility to both, but it is well nurtured animals on managed grassland that hold the key to a healthy future. We must value their ability to convert vegetation into essential manure to help us grow plant food, but we must also accept the clear understanding that farming is management and necessitates the control of animal numbers. The meat from those animals is too precious and nutrient-dense to be wasted, but love and respectful husbandry are an essential input. Then, and only then, is it ethical to eat meat.<\/p>\n

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How I Lost My Fear of Universal Health Care | RH Reality Check<\/a><\/h2>\n
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When I moved to Canada in 2008, I was a die-hard conservative Republican. So when I found out that we were going to be covered by Canada’s Universal Health Care, I was somewhat disgusted. This meant we couldn’t choose our own health coverage, or even opt out if we wanted too. It also meant that abortion was covered by our taxes, something I had always believed was horrible. I believed based on my politics that government mandated health care was a violation of my freedom.<\/p>\n

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Confessions of an Aca\/Fan: Archives: A Pedagogical Response to the Aurora Shootings: 10 Critical Questions about Fictional Representations of Violence<\/a><\/h2>\n

Today, I wanted to share some pedagogical materials which I developed through the New Media Literacies Project in the aftermath of the Virginia Tech shootings, where, once again, anxieties about popular culture substituted for serious reflections on the many root causes of violence in American culture.<\/p>\n

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