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Have a CCOW: A CRAAP Alternative for the Internet Age
Get PDFThe CRAAP Test is a popular tool for teaching students to evaluate information. Its simplicity and ease of understanding make it suitable for teaching in the limited time of a typical one-shot library instruction session. However, it has recently come under criticism for being unequal to the internet age. Critics hold that students treat the CRAAP criteria as a checklist, rarely leaving the source under evaluation to gather more information to aid their assessment, an activity crucial for internet factchecking. This paper details a new set of evaluation criteria that seeks to retain the convenient conceptual packaging of CRAAP while encouraging an investigative mindset. Students are asked to actively investigate the Credentials, Claims, and Objectives behind the information they are evaluating. A fourth criterion, Worldview, prompts metacognition and builds the self-awareness critical to making good judgements about information. This paper explores the CCOW criteria and details a flipped, online guide and exercise which has been successfully used to teach information literacy (IL) to college students in their first year of study using CCOW
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The TAR folder contains linguistic data in three formats: Database: This is the format allows for the most robust searches and allows for powerful JOINs across corpus, lexicon, and source tables but requires knowledge of SQL. See Full-text corpus data for more information on how to use the database format. Linear Text: This format provides a textID for each text, and then the entire text on the same line. In this format, words are not annotated for part of speech or lemma. In addition, contracted words like can\u27t are separated into two parts (ca n\u27t) and punctuation is separated from words (eye level . As her). Word, Lemma, Part of Speech: Texts are separated by a line with ## and the textID
NOW 2022-01 January
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The TAR folder contains linguistic data in three formats: Database: This is the format allows for the most robust searches and allows for powerful JOINs across corpus, lexicon, and source tables but requires knowledge of SQL. See Full-text corpus data for more information on how to use the database format. Linear Text: This format provides a textID for each text, and then the entire text on the same line. In this format, words are not annotated for part of speech or lemma. In addition, contracted words like can\u27t are separated into two parts (ca n\u27t) and punctuation is separated from words (eye level . As her). Word, Lemma, Part of Speech: Texts are separated by a line with ## and the textID
Empowering Biosemiotics
Get PDFOne way to understand the basic semiotic relation is that a sign-vehicle signifies an object to an interpretant. Biosemioticians sometimes talk about this relationship in terms of “codes”. When thinking about this relationship in the context of language, a natural move is to conceptualize semiotic relationships among speakers, meanings, and utterances as codes: speakers encode messages in sentences, which are then decoded by an interpreter. This view of communication is inconsistent with core tenets of a distributed approach to language, which holds that language is an embodied and encultured activity taking place across multiple timescales. I argue that a neo-Aristotelian metaphysics can be of help. A sign’s pointing to an object for an interpreter is a triadic relation, which can be described in terms of “abilities” or “powers”. On this view, talk about “codes” is eliminated in favor of talk about powers of agents and utterances
Governor Inslee Discusses Climate Change With Gonzaga Students
No full textThe Gonzaga Center for Climate, Society, and the Environment was honored to host Washington State Governor Jay Inslee for a wide-ranging discussion on climate change
Economics for a Full World
Get PDFBecause of the exponential economic growth since World War II, we now live in a full world, but we still behave as if it were empty, with ample space and resources for the indefinite future. The founding assumptions of neoclassical economics, developed in the empty world, no longer hold, as the aggregate burden of the human species is reaching—or, in some cases, exceeding—the limits of nature at the local, regional, and planetary levels. The prevailing obsession with economic growth puts us on the path to ecological collapse, sacrificing the very sustenance of our well-being and survival. To reverse this ominous trajectory, we must transition toward a steady-state economy focused on qualitative development, as opposed to quantitative growth, and the interdependence of the human economy and global ecosphere. Developing policies and institutions for a steady-state economy will require us to revisit the question of the purpose and ends of the economy.
Herman Daly is Ecological Economist, Emeritus Professor University of Maryland, former Senior Economist in World Bank environmental Division, former Alumni Professor of Economics, Louisiana State University. In 1996, he was awarded the Right Livelihood Award for defining a path of ecological economics that integrates the key elements of ethics, quality of life, environment and community. PhD Vanderbilt University; BA Rice University. Author of Beyond Growth, and Steady-State Economics among other books
Graph Searching Application of Cat and Mouse Game
No full textWe explore a Cat and Mouse game on graph families by considering varying numbers of cats. Every turn, each cat picks a vertex to check if the mouse is there. After every turn the mouse invisibly moves to an adjacent vertex. The game ends if and when the mouse is caught. Our goal is to minimize the total number of vertices occupied by the cats over all turns, denoted T. We developed several strategies to minimize T. We demonstrate T on graph families including binary trees and complete graphs. We find that placing multiple cats on the same vertex during some turns can be an optimal strategy
A Journey in Servant-Leadership
Get PDFLarry C. Spears explores servant-leadership, his own journey in servant-leadership, and the powerful significance of Philip Mathew\u27s 2021 book Finding Leo
Leading from within the Shadow of Doubt: A Servant-Leader\u27s Approach to Conceptualization and Foresight
Get PDFThe fifty-four mile march from Selma to Montgomery through rural Alabama holds sacred space both geographically as well as on the list of the most iconic moments of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. Thanks to the ongoing public service of Rep. John Lewis, who as a young man aided in organizing that march, the route is now a National Historic Trail offering interpretive centers and recreation areas for those seeking to learn from the trail blazing leaders of this country’s struggle for equity (National Park Service, 2020). Two marches bookend the trail’s history. The first, better known as Bloody Sunday, took place on March 7, 1965, when over six-hundred people marched from Selma seeking equitable voting rights for all people, including African-Americans (National Park Service, 2020, para. 5). The group was blocked by state troopers on the Edmond Pettus Bridge and met with tear gas and smoke bombs as well as a posse on horseback armed with bullwhips, ropes, rubber tubing wrapped with barbed wire, and billy clubs that led to seventeen marchers hospitalized and sixty-seven others injured (Wagy, 1979). At the other end of the trail’s history is a completed march punctuated by a rousing Martin Luther King Jr. speech near the capitol building in Montgomery on March 25, 1965 (National Park Service, 2020). Between these two, and overshadowed by them, sits a paradigmatic moment for leaders, a day known as “Turnaround Tuesday” (Lawson, 1987). Tuesday, March 9, 1965 began with Martin Luther King Jr. proclaiming from the steps of Brown Chapel to 2,500 marchers who had gathered from across the country in “Bloody Sunday’s” wake: “I have no alternative but to lead a march from this spot to carry our grievances to the seat of government. I have made my choice. I have got to march” (Wagy, 1979, p. 403). Yet after an intensifying return to the site of that previous Sunday’s tragedy and facing a similar standoff, King turned the protestors around and called off the march. The events of “Turnaround Tuesday” have their own monumental importance as they illuminate the complexities of leading from within the shadow of doubt
Love in Basketball: Transforming Inappropriate Power in Men\u27s College Basketball Coaching through a Servant-Led Response and Companionate Love
Get PDFIn the summer of 2003, the Baylor University’s men’s basketball program was ripped apart when student-athlete Carlton Dotson murdered his teammate and roommate, Patrick Dennehy. While the details surrounding the events are still unknown, the abhorrent tale, which weaves a tapestry of drug use, gun violence, and unstable behavior, was held as an example of the moral decay of big-money college sports. And it remains the only known case of a student-athlete killing a teammate in the history of U.S. intercollegiate athletics (Wise, 2008). The story fails to simply end with tragic violence; investigations revealed deception, lies, manipulation, and an attempted cover-up by Dave Bliss, the head men’s basketball coach at Baylor from 1999-2003, which led to his 10-year ban from the NCAA (Dewitt, 2008; Wise, 2003, 2017). Later, in his 2015 memoir and a 2017 documentary about the events of 2003, Bliss paints the picture of a redeemed man accepting personal responsibility (Bliss et al., 2015; Kondelis, 2017). Yet, in a moment where Bliss believes the cameras to be off, he continues to disparage Dennehy and, perhaps, once again the nature of leadership embedded in inappropriate power. Instances of this style of leadership, and accompanying manifestations of displays of abuse, manipulation, self-embeddedness and violence, seem to be common practice in college basketball. John Brannen, former head men’s basketball coach at the University of Cincinnati, was fired in May 2021 due to using tactics of intimidation and providing benefits prohibited by NCAA legislation to a student athlete (Jenkins, 2021). Two head coaches have resigned over the last two seasons due to using racial slurs and racially insensitive language around student athletes, and at least two more have been investigated by their universities for similar comments (“Basketball coach out,” 2021; Borzello, 2020, 2021; Hanson, 2021). These are just some of the examples of which we have public record. While on one hand these examples might merely represent extreme cases, perhaps this represents only the tip of the iceberg, with actions and behaviors so alarming that they warranted headlines. Federal, internal, NCAA, and journalistic investigations reveal that much more goes on behind closed doors and outside of the view of the public, but the strings of the thread of leadership centered in inappropriate power drive remain. Such leadership can neutrally be characterized as hierarchy-driven, rules-based, and authoritative; this is not a power that liberates or empowers, but manipulates and controls, dominates and suppresses. With leadership embedded in such inappropriate power drive regularly occurring in men’s college basketball coaching, the purpose of this paper is to more greatly understand the expression, manifestations, and consequences of such leadership, explore a possible transformation arc and inward journey toward a servant-led response and more healthy expression of power, and examine how such a response may be sustained, and what might be experienced as a result, in men’s college basketball coaching with a foundation of servant-leadership and an emotional culture of companionate love