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Teaching, I spend a lot of time sternly admonishing my students not to use Wikipedia in their essays. Writing, I spend a lot of time talking about the benefits of Wikipedia and similar peer-produced knowledge collections. For a while now, I've been daydreaming
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I'm in the last week of classes now, and the last batch of marking, and I'm already starting to miss teaching. Some academics begrudge teaching for the time that it takes away from research, but I find that it's a wonderful complement to the research
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The last couple of days (which feel like a week) have been frantic with teaching, covering for a couple of absent first-year tutors and then doing my usual Tuesday Global Governance rush. Some of the Monday classes were interesting - I was prepared for
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A couple of days ago, I found a poster for the Young Liberals' 'Make Education Fair' campaign tacked to my door. Concerns are couched in terms of the need to protect 'diversity', 'inclusivity', and 'dialogue', familiar concepts from the left, except that
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I'm giving a seminar on the Global Justice Movement (GJM) tomorrow to students from the Shenton College Academic Talent Program , using the 1999 anti-WTO protests in Seattle as a springboard for talking about some of the broader issues. I've been playing
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