Hi Everyone!
If any of you teach undergrads, this might be useful.
I had my first classes of the new semester yesterday .
The topic was on regional dialects of English as a way
to introduce Multicultural Education and my students.
What struck me was, they were so young that they
had never heard of the movie "Fargo".
Here is a profile of the mindset of the class of 2015.
http://www.beloit.edu/mindset/2015/
Robert Lake
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 9:04 AM, mike cole <lchcmike@gmail.com> wrote:
Nothing like chatting with the neighbors to keep up one's spirits on a
cloudy day,
Denise! Aren't we a distance learning group?? Darn near 24/7.
:-)
mike
On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 10:28 PM, Newnham Denise <dsnewnham@bluewin.ch
>wrote:
> HI all xmca's
>
> I am doing my PhD with Bath and live in Switzerland that means that I
spend
> many hours alone in front of books and texts attempting to understand
what
> is going on. It is extremely lonely at times and although the
> collective
> learning can be understood to come through the words of the authors
> there
> are no minds to bounce off. I would really like to thank all xmca's for
> their interesting and mind opening debates. Sometimes when I am stuck
> suddenly someone writes on just that problem area. These debates are
> what
> makes me keep going and where I feel that I belong to a collective
> mind.
>
>
>
> I actually recommend to distance learning institutions to do something
> similar even if it is only internal, it is really psychologically
> (cognitive etc) a great help and comfort.
>
>
>
> Thank you all
>
> Denise
>
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