Lessons
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Life Lessons: A Remembrance
I’ve never been one for birthdays. I understand, of course, why adults make a commotion over marking the passage of time when children are involved. But I’m less clear on why all the bother continues into your twenties and beyond. Congratulations bub, you’re still here! You and seven billion others. …
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The Digital Life Sentence
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Through the Keyhole: Observations on the Ravi Trial
I hadn’t planned on returning to the case of Tyler Clementi’s suicide. I wrote extensively about it last year, starting in late September when the news broke that Clementi, a first-year student at Rutgers, had jumped from the George Washington Bridge after discovering that his roommate, Dharun Ravi, had streamed …
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Future of Education
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The Pursuit of Meaningfulness and the Grim Meathook Future: Reflections on Toni Morrison’s Commencement Speech
Well, the new graduation procedure appears to have gone off without a hitch. Some 40,000 folks found their way to the stadium; parents and friends cheered during the conferring of degrees; Toni Morrison gave the address to the first students to graduate from the School of Arts and Sciences; no …
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Tyler Clementi and The End of Privacy
Virtual Communities and Embodied Realities: “he was SPYING ON ME….do they see nothing wrong with this?”
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