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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 > > > > __________________________________________ > > _____ > > xmca mailing list > > xmca@weber.ucsd.edu > > http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca > > > __________________________________________ > _____ > xmca mailing list > xmca@weber.ucsd.edu > http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca > -- *Robert Lake Ed.D. *Assistant Professor Social Foundations of Education Dept. of Curriculum, Foundations, and Reading Georgia Southern University P. O. Box 8144 Phone: (912) 478-5125 Fax: (912) 478-5382 Statesboro, GA 30460 *Democracy must be born anew in every generation, and education is its midwife.* *-*John Dewey. __________________________________________ _____ xmca mailing list xmca@weber.ucsd.edu http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca