Jeremy Sarachan
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Challenges and Opportunities
I certainly agree that Max's success revolving around the acceptance of peers is limiting and plays too much to neurotypicals' assumptions about what individuals with Asperger's need to be "happy". However, I think the program sti ... -
Diversity
This is an excellent way to end the week, demonstrating some of the advances that have been made depicting Asperger's on television. While I agree with earlier discussions suggesting that the emphasis is certainly on individuals at this end of the sp ... -
Savantism
I agree that many depictions of people with Asperger's (or Autism Spectrum Disorder since the label technically no longer exists) rely too much on a savant-like ability to define a character. As stated, this ability bestows value on the individual th ... -
The Problem with Empathy
Lizzie's perceptions effectively remind us that all of these Zombies were human, while the repetitious killing throughout the show desensitizes us to that fact. A similar blindness to the plight of others occurs in reality as well. Children with Auti ... -
The Value of Collaboration
The more students can see the value of collaboration (instead of being repulsed by group work), the more they will appreciate a more realistic view of work in the 21st century. Collaboration also allows more interesting (and fun) things to occur. As it ha ... -
Thanks for reading
I have not had them go on to IMR, but I agree that having an outsider post really hits home the idea of writing for a larger audience. I'm hoping that my post may lead to that outcome for them. (Hint. Hint.:)) ... -
My class has 20-24 students,
My class has 20-24 students, but except for the added work of inviting more students into the common Wordpress site, I think the assignment could scale somewhat--certainly up to 40. I could imagine how 90 students could start to become difficult, although ... -
The Importance of Immediacy
This is a fantastic project, especially the combination of critical analysis with journalistic style research. Another professor at our college taught a course on cyberactivism last year, but with a focus on more traditional video style documentation. Thi ... -
Storify as a Research Tool
I agree that curation has become a significant task, as well as a useful one. I've just had students use Storify not as a journalism tool (which is what it's meant to be used as--but such intent is fairly meaningless with Web 2.0)--but as a way ... -
The value of IMR
I'm looking forward to this week's contributions (well, I've read mine.:)). I think the short form of In Media Res demonstrates an important point to students--that meaningful dialogue can occur without a lengthy paper. This makes the proce ...