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F*ck E-Learning. Snow Days Teach Us Something More Important.

January 4, 2023 by Museum Fatigue

Two hours ago I woke up to that special kind of muffled winter silence, pulled the shade, and looked out the window. While we slept, the weather remade our average neighborhood into a fantastic land. We got the kind of snow that makes Minnesota a special place to live. I couldn’t wait for our 4th grader to wake up and see the outside prepared this way for him. An unexpected forest beyond the wardrobe! Then a message arrived from the […]

Categories: Anthropocene, Education, Uncategorized • Tags: public education, snow day

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Student Feedback on Digital Anthropology Class in Three Modalities: Zoom, Minecraft and (Pandemic) In-person

March 2, 2021 by Museum Fatigue

Since the beginning of the semester, the Digital Anthropology class has examined the material natures of the digital, the deep time of digital devices, and the way that human and non-humans interact in larger assemblages. We have looked at the different propositions for what digital anthropology might be and how we might consider the virtual and actual as both real. At the same time, since the beginning of the semester our class has been meeting virtually on Zoom and in […]

Categories: Digital Anthropology, Education • Tags: mineclass, Minecraft, Zoom

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10 RULES FOR TERRANAUTS (Pandemic Edition, after John Cage and Bruno Latour)

July 20, 2020 by Museum Fatigue

Like many of my colleagues, I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about what the fall is going to look like for educators. Looking back on this spring, one of the things that struck me was how quickly faculty pivoted to remote delivery of classes without really considering what the experience would be like for students. The assumption for many was that the current generation of undergraduates—so comfortable with using technology—would unproblematically adjust to online delivery. This ignored the fact […]

Categories: Education, pandemic • Tags: Bruno Latour, John Cage, Terranauts

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Have Mobile Phones In the Classroom Reached Their Calculator Moment?

February 9, 2015 by Museum Fatigue

Last week, while reviewing our class syllabus on the first day, I made a decision to do a little experiment. Rather than make the announcement that mobile phones should be turned off during class, I did the opposite. I told my visual anthropology class that unrestricted use of mobile phones in class would be allowed this semester. Allowing all students to use their devices freely at all times seems very counterintuitive. In fact, even now I am concerned that in […]

Categories: Education, Higher Education, Teaching, Technology • Tags: calculator, classroom experience, iPhone, mobile phone, technology, TI-35

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Good Food Class Midterm Tasting Meal, Part Two

October 18, 2014 by Museum Fatigue

  This past Monday night our First Year Seminar gathered together for a food tasting meal—an event that gave us a chance to taste a wide variety of foods in dialogue with the books we have been reading and discussing so far this semester. In Part One of this post I summarized some of those books, our menu and the experience of shopping for all of the items—complete with photos. While dreaming up that menu and shopping for the foods […]

Categories: Assignments, Education, Food, FYSEM: Good Food • Tags: American food system, Colossal Cafe, Farmers Market, FYSEM, meals, organic, Pizza Luce, Sara Lee® Apple Pie, supermarket

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Good Food Class Midterm Tasting Meal, Part One

October 12, 2014 by Museum Fatigue

This semester I am teaching a First Year Seminar titled Good Food: Eating and Culture. For the first half of the semester we have been learning about different aspects of the American food system and its history. Beginning with Michael Pollan’s classic Omnivore’s Dilemma and James E. McWilliams Just Food: Where Locavores Get it Wrong and How We Can Truly Eat Responsibly, this past week we have been wading into Susan Friedberg’s excellent social history of food and technology, Fresh: A Perishable History. Along the […]

Categories: Assignments, Education, Food, FYSEM: Good Food • Tags: American food system, cheese, Farmers Market, Fruits, FYSEM, James McWilliams, meal, Meat, Michael Pollan, Rainbow Foods, supermarket, Susan Friedberg, Vegetables

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Need Help Writing College Essays? 论文写作专家

August 8, 2014 by Museum Fatigue

No, I’m not running an essay writing service. I am, however, happy to see that I have career choices. Yesterday while enjoying a walk through the University of Toronto campus I noticed hundreds of fliers taped up on information boards and utility poles advertising the professional essay writing services. These were special, however, because they were entirely in Chinese (in both simplified and complex character versions) clearly targeting a specific client base. Most interesting to me was that even the […]

Categories: Consumption, Education, Fakes and Forgeries, Higher Education • Tags: cheating, college, 论文写作专家,essay writing

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Anti-Cheating Posters on Chinese University Campus

June 26, 2014 by Museum Fatigue

A few days ago I just happened to be visiting a university campus in the outskirts of Shanghai during the beginning of finals week. Along one wall in the lobby of the teaching building I noted a number of very interesting posters discouraging cheating on tests. Done in different styles they all had a singular message—don’t cheat on your finals. I imagined how a similar set of posters posted on an American campus would be received by students taking tests […]

Categories: Education, Surveillance • Tags: cheating, China, final exam, posters, testing

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Simulating Victor Turner’s Liminal of Pilgrimage on Campus

February 22, 2014 by Museum Fatigue

Every other year I offer one of my favorite and longest-running classes, Pilgrims, Travelers and Tourists—a class which surveys different genres of travel and voyaging historically and cross-culturally. Since travel and movement—questions of who travels, where, why and how—are central to the experience of being a person these days, I find the interesting theories and cases we examine in class to be easy for students to connect to their everyday experiences. Studying something as interesting and exciting as travel—something that is so […]

Categories: Anthropology, Assignments, Education, Pilgrims, Travelers, Tourists, Space • Tags: assignments, campus space, liminal, pedagogy, Peter Haakon Thompson, pilgrimage, spatial practice, teaching, university, Victor Turner, www.tentservices.org

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The Weight of Creation(ism)

August 31, 2013 by Museum Fatigue

“…it is an inherent characteristic of common-sense thought precisely to deny this and to affirm that its tenets are immediate deliverances of experience, not deliberated reflections upon it…common sense rests its [case] on the assertion that it is not a case at all, just life in a nutshell. The world is its authority.”—Clifford Geertz, “Common Sense as a Cultural System” “Wherever we turn, there is the Face of God…” —Harun Yahya Last week a colleague of mine in the Religion […]

Categories: Anthropology, Books, Education, Mystery Objects, Mythologies, Religion • Tags: adnan oktar, Atlas of Creation, Clifford Geertz, common sense, Creation Museum, Creationism, Global Publishing, Harun Yahya, Richard Dawkins, weight

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