On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 9:16 AM, Sean Andrews <cultstud76 at gmail.com> wrote:
> on the one hand, isn't it a falsehood that we don't make shit? there
> is still a pretty substantial manufacturing sector, but the idea that
> we don't have one keeps it impoverished in the national imaginary. On
> the other hand, there are plenty of people who are participating in
> shifts so that we aren't even producing this kind of intellectual
> value. In today's Chronicle of Higher Ed there is an article about
> the outsourcing of grading in writing intensive courses. I haven't
> signed in to read the whole article, but here's the lede:
>
> http://chronicle.com/article/Outsourced-Grading-With/64954/
>
> April 4, 2010
> Some Papers Are Uploaded to Bangalore to Be Graded
> Outsourced Grading, With Supporters and Critics, Comes to College
>
> Lori Whisenant, who teaches business law and ethics at the U. of
> Houston, has outsourced the grading of students' papers to a private
> company.
>
> By Audrey Williams June
>
> Lori Whisenant knows that one way to improve the writing skills of
> undergraduates is to make them write more. But as each student in her
> course in business law and ethics at the University of Houston began
> to crank out—often awkwardly—nearly 5,000 words a semester, it became
> clear to her that what would really help them was consistent, detailed
> feedback.
>
> Her seven teaching assistants, some of whom did not have much
> experience, couldn't deliver.
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 07:48, James Leveque <jamespl79 at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/06/opinion/06brooks.html?hp
>>
>> "As the world gets richer, demand will rise for the sorts of products
>> Americans are great at providing — emotional experiences. Educated Americans
>> grow up in a culture of moral materialism; they have their sensibilities
>> honed by complicated shows like “The Sopranos,” “The Wire” and “Mad Men,”
>> and they go on to create companies like Apple, with identities coated in
>> moral and psychological meaning, which affluent consumers crave."
>>
>> To quote Frank Sobotka from "The Wire": "You know what the trouble is
>> Brucey? We used to make shit in this country, build shit. Now we just put
>> our hand in the next guy's pocket."
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