Liette Gidlow
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In response to Dan Ehrenkrantz.
could be. Thanks for the engagement.
03:09 PM - Mar 19, 2023
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Liette Gidlow
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In response to Dan Ehrenkrantz.
Then, must we assess? Not "must" as in "the School Board/Dean will have a fit if no grades are turned in," but "must" as in, should assessment be a routine part of the educational experience? Why do we do this?

What other goal or process would be worthy of our and our students' efforts?
02:55 PM - Mar 19, 2023
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Liette Gidlow
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In response to Dan Ehrenkrantz.
Ty for this. If you're willing/interested, I'd love to hear more.

Grading/assessing is definitely part of the job. Even "ungrading" practices still assess (and assign a grade).

Let's stipulate that teaching is inherently valuable. What is the value of assessment when cheating is the norm?
02:00 PM - Mar 19, 2023
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Liette Gidlow
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In response to SirMikeAlot.
will check it out!
03:37 PM - Mar 12, 2023
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Liette Gidlow
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In response to Liette Gidlow.
7/ If many Americans do not seem themselves as people for whom it is possible to be effective political actors, where are we as a democracy?

-- end --
09:55 PM - Mar 02, 2023
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Liette Gidlow
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In response to Liette Gidlow.
6/ So many Americans, like my students, seem to feel profoundly detached from the political arena. They do not seem to see themselves as political actors, as people who have a right to ask for better and who could act to make change.
09:52 PM - Mar 02, 2023
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Liette Gidlow
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In response to Liette Gidlow.
5/ It would be fair to be angry, outraged, at such misguided leadership. It would be appropriate to demand accountability. But there was no outrage from my students, and no sense that they possessed, or could possess, any political efficacy at all.

I don't think my students are alone in this.
09:34 PM - Mar 02, 2023 (Edited)
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Liette Gidlow
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In response to Liette Gidlow.
4/ Everything that happened after -- millions of deaths among civilians and US service personnel -- happened bc US leaders decided to escalate even though they knew it wasn't clear the Maddox had been attacked.

How is one supposed to react to that?
12:11 PM - Feb 28, 2023
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Liette Gidlow
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In response to Liette Gidlow.
3/ This is painfully evident in the discussion of the Gulf of Tonkin incident. MacNamara maintains that the US was unambiguously attacked, but naval commanders at the time were not at all sure of that.
12:07 PM - Feb 28, 2023
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Liette Gidlow
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In response to Liette Gidlow.
2/ The film contrasts the recollections about the war of Robert MacNamara, the elderly former SecDef for President Johnson, to historical evidence about the war from the time. The contrast shows that MacNamara, forty years after the war, still cannot tell the truth about the war.
12:02 PM - Feb 28, 2023
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Liette Gidlow
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In response to Scott Huffman.
a regurgitation of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, but powered by the jet fuel of
Koch money
01:00 PM - Feb 26, 2023
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Liette Gidlow
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In response to Liette Gidlow.
thx for sharing!
12:47 PM - Feb 26, 2023
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Liette Gidlow
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In response to David Zaber.
😆😆😆
07:27 PM - Feb 22, 2023
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