A student asked me the following question:
I am curious about the seeming one dimensional focus we are embarking upon in reference to technology as our "next saviour for public education". I have not seen much research in terms of support for any bandwagon tool or program that is outweighed by small class sizes, regular contact [...]
Archive for March, 2005
Technology as Fad?
Posted in general on March 11, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
Cell Phone Videotaping in Class
Posted in general on March 4, 2005 | 1 Comment »
There’s an interesting story that emerged in New Jersey about a hotheaded teacher who regularly screams at students who refuse to stand for the national anthem and sometimes pulls there chairs out. One of the students in the class caught the teacher in action on videotape, and it’s been circulating online. The student who taped [...]
NLP and Espionage
Posted in general on March 3, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
Putting natural language processing to service in the field of espionage: With Terror in Mind, a Formulaic Way to Parse Sentences
Google as corpus?
Posted in general on March 2, 2005 | 1 Comment »
Corpus-based research — either for deep insight into language or to try to answer practical questions of language use — suffers from several difficulties. First, the corpora of authentic language use that have been assembled are usually not big enough. Second, they are usually biased in certain ways (for example, containing mostly examples of academic [...]
A good deal!
Posted in general on March 1, 2005 | 1 Comment »
I see in this article that doctors get paid $24 to $30 to email their patients. Don’t you think that professors should get the same for emailing their students?
