Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 33, No. 165.
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    [1]    From: Jim Rovira 
           Subject: Re: [Humanist] 33.163: effects of the digital classroom (27)

    [2]    From: Robert Delius Royar 
           Subject: Re: [Humanist] 33.163: effects of the digital classroom (57)


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        Date: 2019-08-02 14:39:05+00:00
        From: Jim Rovira 
        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 33.163: effects of the digital classroom

Thank you for posting this article, Willard. The insistence of colleges and
universities on having a computer at every desk in every classroom in spite
of the research on the topic is amazing to me. I don't believe straight
lecture is the best pedagogy, but I think it's okay for students to unplug
sometimes. When the author gets specific about wanting to teach students
translation skills, I was completely on board with him wanting them to work
off of their computers and learn the language and its syntax.

Jim R

On Fri, Aug 2, 2019 at 1:16 AM Humanist  wrote:

> Those here who teach may take an interest in Tim Parks' "The Dying Art
> of Instruction in the Digital Classroom" (NYR Daily, New York Review of
> Books, 31 July). I hope you have something to say about it. I attach the
> piece, which as far as I can tell, is meant to be circulated freely.
>
> Yours,
> WM
>

Dr. James Rovira
*Writing for College and Beyond*
http://www.lulu.com/shop/james-rovira/writing-for-college-and-
beyond/paperback/product-24081792.html
Lulu Press, May 2019, a first year writing textbook


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        Date: 2019-08-02 13:02:15+00:00
        From: Robert Delius Royar 
        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 33.163: effects of the digital classroom

I am likely the same age as the writer of this piece as I too am three
years shy of the official retirement year. I am, I suppose, a besotted lout
who pursued and embraced the computer-mediated classroom as soon as I could
manage to find one -- working with students on an old VAX/VMS system using a
customized EMACS text editor in various DCL maintained classroom shells
during the early 1980s. I have not stopped and find that the classroom is a
heady adventure for me -- one in which my unruly students monitor my
assumptions, scrutinize my evidence, and uncover conclusions. I see my
professional responsibility to be less of a talking book and more of an
intellectual irritant than my oysters might polish into their own pearls.

Mandatory reference to ancient rhetoricians, such as Isocrates & similar
laments about the new youth, I forego. However, I do allude to Plato who
through his alter-ego of Socrates lamented that the new-fangled technology
of writing ruined the intellect of Athenian youth (because everyone has
read those dialogues).

On Fri, Aug 2, 2019 at 1:16 AM Humanist  wrote:

>                   Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 33, No. 163.
>             Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London
>                    Hosted by King's Digital Lab
>                        www.dhhumanist.org
>                 Submit to: humanist@dhhumanist.org
>
>
>
>
>         Date: 2019-08-01 20:21:40+00:00
>         From: Willard McCarty 
>         Subject: effects of the digital classroom
>
> Those here who teach may take an interest in Tim Parks' "The Dying Art
> of Instruction in the Digital Classroom" (NYR Daily, New York Review of
> Books, 31 July). I hope you have something to say about it. I attach the
> piece, which as far as I can tell, is meant to be circulated freely.
>
> Yours,
> WM
>
> --
> Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/),
> Professor emeritus, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College
> London; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews
> (www.tandfonline.com/loi/yisr20) and Humanist (www.dhhumanist.org)
>
>
>
> Attachments:
> 2019. Parks, The Dying Art of Instruction in the Digital Classroom | NYR
> Daily | The New York Review of Books.pdf:
> https://dhhumanist.org/att/69776/att00/

--
               Robert Delius Royar
 Caught in the net since 1985



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