Siva Vaidhyanathan: The Classroom Is Sacred

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Partner:: CUNY
Location:: Elebash Recital Hall
New York, NY
Event Date:: 04.21.10
Speaker:: Siva Vaidhyanathan
Tags:: google; school; public education; university

Summary: Professor Vaidhyanathan's keynote address, entitled "'The Classroom is Sacred': Digitization Without Commercialization," addresses the myriad challenges facing university faculty, administrators and students in finding the best ways to embrace emerging digital technologies to improve teaching, research and learning without giving in to commercial pressures or arguments about efficiency or cost savings. Prof. Vaidhyanathan suggests that we approach the implementation of academic technologies in the classroom with a sense of experimentation and modesty.

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Siva Vaidhyanathan

Siva Vaidhyanathan is a cultural historian and media scholar, and is currently an associate professor of media studies and law at the University of Virginia. From 1999 through the summer of 2007 he worked in the Department of Culture and Communication at New York University.

Vaidhyanathan is a frequent contributor on media and cultural issues in various periodicals including The Chronicle of Higher Education, New York Times Magazine, The Nation, and Salon.com, and he maintains a blog, www.googlizationofeverything.com. He is a frequent contributor to National Public Radio and to MSNBC.COM and has appeared in a segment of "The Daily Show" with Jon Stewart.

Vaidhyanathan is a fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities and the Institute for the Future of the Book.

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01.: Role of Teachers as Clergy

02 min 04 sec

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02.: The Digital University: Why We Are Doing So Well?

06 min 31 sec

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03.: The Argument: DYI U, What Would Google Do?

02 min 45 sec

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04.: The University Is Not One Thing

02 min 02 sec

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05.: Classroom Is a 5th Space

02 min 52 sec

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06.: Classroom Is a Place to Experiment

00 min 36 sec

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07.: Classroom Is a Place for Tradition and Ritual

01 min 03 sec

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08.: Teachers Are Performers and Liars

02 min 36 sec

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09.: Teaching Is Not About Delivering Information

02 min 20 sec

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10.: Teaching Ain't Easy

03 min 37 sec

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11.: Teaching Online Doesn't Translate

01 min 21 sec

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12.: The Wrong Reason

06 min 20 sec

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13.: Digitization Is Not an Ideology

04 min 16 sec

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14.: Make Yourself Visible

02 min 02 sec

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15.: A Word of Caution

06 min 36 sec

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16.: The Root: The Heightened Competition for Resources

04 min 50 sec

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17.: Rejecting Veblen's Legacy

05 min 20 sec

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18.: Q1: Universities Gaining a Return on Alumni

05 min 47 sec

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19.: Q2: Process of Student Evaluation

04 min 35 sec

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20.: Q3: Enhancing Private Sector University Flow

04 min 54 sec

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21.: Q4: Digital Misinterpretations

03 min 49 sec

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College 2.0: Can Universities Be Googlized?

02 min 57 sec

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Siva Vaidhyanathan: The Classroom Arose From Religion

03 min 04 sec

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