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November 2015

November 25, 2015

Making the Canon Game

When Mike Kok shared a classroom handout which included the criteria for inclusion in the New...

October 2015

October 20, 2015

Learning Ignorance

The quote comes from a recent post about ignorance, education, and faith on Cindy Brandt's...

October 12, 2015

Gamification: Sisyphus and Students

This comic from Existential Comics got me thinking about gamification in education. Sometimes tediously repetitive...

October 11, 2015

Materializing the Bible

I had an online resource come to my attention recently, called Materializing the Bible. It is...

September 2015

September 25, 2015

Imitation, Forgery, and Education #YCAS2015

The discussion of forgery led to a discussion on the way to lunch about the...

September 01, 2015

How To Get The Least Possible Out Of University Religion Classes

Michael Kruger has made a video which describes his own experience of having taken classes with Bart...

August 2015

August 02, 2015

#GenCon Religion

While there is a Sunday worship service at Gen Con (which I didn't go to),...

July 2015

July 24, 2015

The Importance of Theology and Science Fiction

This round-up of posts began when W. David O. Taylor shared his syllabus for an...

July 07, 2015

The Opposite of Faith

Kim Fabricius considers a number of possible and oft-proposed identifications for the opposite of faith, and...

June 2015

June 15, 2015

My Blog Post Has Become An Essay

I expanded my recent blog post about the experience of my son discovering RateMyProfessors.com into an...

June 11, 2015

Trade Day at #GenCon (Gaming and Education)

Gen Con will be taking place at the end of July, and this year I'll...

May 2015

May 08, 2015

Graduate Doubt-Free

The publicity material continues to emphasize the 95% job placement rate of Butler graduates, and...

May 07, 2015

A Textbook Case of Addiction

Or should that be "a case of textbook addiction"? From the webcomic series Cyanide and...

May 04, 2015

Ability to Focus

If someone tells you that today's students, perhaps because of video games, simply cannot focus...

April 2015

April 26, 2015

Fahrenheit 451 on Standardized Testing

"If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a...

April 12, 2015

Let the Punishment Fit the Crime

This comic from Cyanide and Happiness relates to both religious ideas of punishments in an...

March 2015

March 26, 2015

What is a Degree?

The discussions about my recent post on the topic of university education (which has since become...

January 2015

January 27, 2015

Pat Robertson Advises Pharaoh

A news report recently quoted Pat Robertson saying that people in other countries see more...

January 22, 2015

Ten Professorial Commandments

Elliott Ratzman offered the following Ten Commandments in Inside Higher Ed: 1. Thou shalt have...

November 2014

November 21, 2014

Richard Carrier and Illiterate Country Hicks

As readers of this blog probably know, I wrote a short and focused review of one...

October 2014

October 08, 2014

Too Old

A student sent me this e-mail recently: Dr. McGrath, Sorry about the multiple emails. I'm...

October 05, 2014

You May Take Notes

Times have changed. Technologies change. It isn't clear that just listening intently, and then photographing...

September 2014

September 01, 2014

LEGO Social Mobility

Inequality and social mobility (or lack thereof) in the United States, illustrated with LEGO. HT...

August 2014

August 26, 2014

10 Amazing Reasons to Buzzfeedify Your Syllabus

Beloit has released its annual mindset list, about the things that this year's incoming freshmen...

August 26, 2014

First Day of School

Classes start at Butler tomorrow. If you are an educator, have classes started for you?...

August 18, 2014

(Learning) From a Distance

This is the follow-up to my song parody about online learning, "Message Sent on Moodle,"...

August 16, 2014

Saturday at #GenCon

I spent today at GenCon, and thought I'd share some thoughts and photos. The first...

June 2014

June 04, 2014

Book of Job Trigger Warning

Rob Zaretsky's piece in Inside Higher Ed proposes trigger warnings for a number of pieces of...

May 2014

May 06, 2014

Proof That God Loves Us

I fact-checked the quote about beer that is often attributed to Ben Franklin (“Beer is proof...

April 2014

April 17, 2014

The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Capitalism

Talking about George Orwell's 1984, and the book within the book, is always interesting. But...

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