The word “silo” is used frequently in higher ed. Is it an acronym of varying sorts? A job title? Could there be a superior intelligent liaison officer of administration managing the enterprise of the academe? Are our “silos” spaces to keep things safe? Is this where we place and store a successful yield-a research bounty-for distribution? Or are they disciplinary fortresses designed to hoard treasures and prevent others from sharing? Or at most sinister and at odds with the mandate of improving the human condition, did we build these with an idea to destroy others from a distance? The word “silo” is frequently used in higher ed. How do you use the word?
Month: May 2019
Describing, Not Prescribing
Friday, July 29 2019
The Valdosta School
To: My beloved students
Re: Getting unstuck
@TM
#tools
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And taxonomies are useful. Circumscribing intellectual spaces, defining terms, and so on.
The value of tasking students with the seemingly mechanical and relatively unintimidating challenge of assembling collections of terms related to a content area has succumbed to disruption through edupunked supportive networks delivering high quality content that meets many curricular objectives. Time to (re)design and glean those punked out immersive best practices.