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From Harry Ransom Center at the University Of Texas at Austin.
Back before 60 Minutes, Mike Wallace had his own TV interview show, The Mike Wallace Interview, which aired from 1957 to 1960. And what you get is Mike Wallace asking probing questions to celebrities of the day (and peddling cigarettes). An archive of the television series is hosted by The University of Texas, and features talks with Frank Lloyd Wright, Eleanor Roosevelt, Salvador Dali and many others.
From The Chronicle of Higher Education...
"Cole W. Camplese, director of education-technology services at Pennsylvania State University at University Park, prefers to teach in classrooms with two screens - one to project his slides, and another to project a Twitter stream of notes from students. He knows he is inviting distraction - after all, he's essentially asking students to pass notes during class. But he argues that the additional layer of communication will make for richer class discussions...Once students warmed to the idea that their professors actually wanted them to chat during class, students begin floating ideas or posting links to related materials, the professor says. In some cases, a shy student would type an observation or question on Twitter, and others in the class would respond with notes encouraging the student to raise the topic out loud. Other times, one of the professors would see a link posted by a student and stop class to discuss it."
From Open Culture...
April 28th, 2009
The most popular article in yesterday's New York Times was an Op-Ed calling for a thoroughgoing overhaul of the traditional university. For Mark Taylor (chairman of the religion department at Columbia University), it's time to get rid of the mass-production university mode...
Read the Posting at:
http://www.openculture.com/2009/04/ending_the_university_as_we_know_it.html
NY Times Article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/27/opinion/27taylor.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1241017230-97aIrp3ccrgtRYZ8P6NcUg
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