As AI gets better at doing students’ work, are educators asking the wrong question? In my latest Neighborhood Sociologist essay, I rethink online teaching through one principle: Teach in the digital. Learn in the physical.
#neighborhoodsociologist — Public Fediverse posts
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"The leverage provided by AI creates a new reality for us yeoman professors: we no longer need to be entirely dependent on institutional support to produce meaningful scholarship and teaching materials."
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"Without people willing to step into that role and generate fresh ideas, public debate becomes little more than a discussion of how best to manage the world as it currently exists."
https://rodgraham.substack.com/p/the-difference-between-thinking-critically
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"...much of the backlash is rooted in expectations rather than any fixed truth. We expect Helen of Troy to look like a European woman, not Lupita Nyong’o. When those expectations are violated, we get in our feelings."
#neighborhoodsociologist #socialscience #sociology
https://rodgraham.substack.com/p/on-the-odyssey-sid-meiers-civilization
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"...much of the backlash is rooted in expectations rather than any fixed truth. We expect Helen of Troy to look like a European woman, not Lupita Nyong’o. When those expectations are violated, we get in our feelings."
#neighborhoodsociologist
open.substack.com/pub/rodgraha...
On The Odyssey, Sid Meier’s Ci... -
"Ironically, the most obvious response to concerns about liberal bias is the very thing conservative thought leaders have transformed into a villain: diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives."
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"Some forms of resistance are loud—screams and spittle, pronouncements and proclamations. Other forms are quiet, so quiet they are mistaken for surrender."
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Some things I write I just want to forget I ever put finger to key. But looking back, this has aged pretty well.
#sociology #neighborhoodsociologist
https://roderickshawngraham.medium.com/what-type-of-voter-are-you-105b2d1a7a9c
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"...the upcoming July 4th celebrations and reflections give me an opportunity to, well, talk about opportunity structure a little bit more."
#sociology #neighborhoodsociologist
https://rodgraham.substack.com/p/america-the-land-of-opportunity-structure
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"If knowledge production—research—can be understood as the soul of academic life, then knowledge sharing—teaching—is its heart."
#sociology #neighborhoodsociologist
https://rodgraham.substack.com/p/the-yeoman-professor-as-teacher
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Me on Monday:
"That's it! I'm going analog. Touch grass. De-screen. I'm writing more in long hand. Do I even remember how to use cursive? I'm losing my humanity here and it has to stop!"
Me on Thursday:
"I need that second screen."
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The killing of Americans will continue. The situation itself is to blame, and ultimately untenable. You have what amounts to an occupying force. and they are seen by the people as illegitimate and immoral. Somewhere the ghost of Crispus Attucks is nodding his head. #neighborhoodsociologist
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"There are no MAGA, woke, Black, Southern, American, female, or trans “essences” that determine group outcomes. The patterns we see at the group level are not powered by some internal and eternal trait."
#neighborhoodsociologisthttps://rodgraham.substack.com/p/groups-are-not-unique-conditions
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"There are no MAGA, woke, Black, Southern, American, female, or trans “essences” that determine group outcomes. The patterns we see at the group level are not powered by some internal and eternal trait."
#neighborhoodsociologisthttps://rodgraham.substack.com/p/groups-are-not-unique-conditions
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One thing sociology has taught me is that what seem to be unique characteristics of individuals or groups, are in reality responses to *unique conditions.*
It makes total sense for some now to rest on ideological justifications that have been embraced by victims of hate speech in the past.
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One thing sociology has taught me is that what seem to be unique characteristics of individuals or groups, are in reality responses to *unique conditions.*
It makes total sense for some now to rest on ideological justifications that have been embraced by victims of hate speech in the past.
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"There are many ways I can contribute, I just never thought about! In effect, my colleague had given me an assortment of statuses in a social movement that have roles very different from protesting."
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"There are many ways I can contribute, I just never thought about! In effect, my colleague had given me an assortment of statuses in a social movement that have roles very different from protesting."
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If you really want to know the "Secret" - it is not a book or film or some "law of attraction."
It's your ability to change the world around you.
#neighborhoodsociologist #sociology
https://rodgraham.substack.com/p/some-things-your-sociologist-never-bfe
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There are so many jobs out there. But nobody wants them.
My latest #neighborhoodsociologist piece explains why so many skilled trades jobs go unfilled.
https://rodgraham.substack.com/p/why-does-nobody-want-these-high-paying