Even when Barbara Ganley isn't sure what she wants to say, she is a pleasure to read. That's the case, I think, with this post, one of her infrequent forays into blogdom after leaving her teaching position six months ago. She captures here a theme I've seen (and encourage) in a number of other places: "Instead of sitting around waiting, for instance, for Obama to solve the world's woes (and waiting to be told what to do to help, or worse, doing what academics do - expending our energies criticizing and complaining while doing nothing), we have to engage with our communities to bring about change and help on local levels." And she's capturing the difference between 'collaboration' as academics perceive it and 'collaboration' as it works for the rest of us: "As a college teacher, I thought I was all about collaborative learning, about students taking responsibility for their learning and their lives - together - but how can you do that within an artificial environment? Within a closed environment?"
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