{"id":2795,"date":"2010-11-19T16:06:46","date_gmt":"2010-11-19T08:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/?p=2795"},"modified":"2010-11-19T16:06:46","modified_gmt":"2010-11-19T08:06:46","slug":"marking-confronted-and-fine-harvard-minds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/19\/marking-confronted-and-fine-harvard-minds\/","title":{"rendered":"Marking, confronted and fine Harvard minds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MARKING<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Shhh&#8230; go away&#8230; I&#8217;m marking&#8230;.not meant to be here&#8230;you didn&#8217;t see me &#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sirexkat\/3384317714\/in\/photostream\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3600\/3384317714_a8b7653aa9_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>CONFRONTED<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My first semester marking student assignments is confronting. By the end of next semester I should have a lot of tricks and shortcuts, but at the moment I am still learning where the corners are in this job, let alone when and how they can be cut. Marking is making me look very hard at:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> my own ethics<\/li>\n<li>my own writing style<\/li>\n<li> my preconceived opinions<\/li>\n<li>how I manage my time<\/li>\n<li>what I believe students deserve in terms of my attention and time<\/li>\n<li>what I believe is authoritative information<\/li>\n<li>what I think students need to know &#8211; both information and as skills in communication<\/li>\n<li>what the profession is likely to want from students<\/li>\n<li>and what the university is likely to expect of me<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sirexkat\/3383500617\/in\/photostream\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3210\/3383500617_215105da70_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>HARVARD<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Now, when the minifigs visited <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harvard.edu\/\">Harvard University<\/a> last year, they did not see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/markzuckerberg\">Mark Zuckerburg<\/a>, founder of Facebook. He had moved on by then, and they were looking at minifig concerns like tiny doors and Sesame Street sweatshirts.<\/p>\n<p>But &#8211; if you want some intellectual stimulation from two of the Harvard minds that I admire most, please get yourself a cuppa, pull up an easy chair and take some time of sheer pleasure to enjoy the lucidity and careful writing of L<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lessig.org\/\">awrence Lessig<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zadie_Smith\">Zadie Smith<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p>In an interesting pastiche of popular culture, web culture and careful consideration about knowledge-making, both have independently written reviews of Alan Sorkin&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesocialnetwork-movie.com\/\">The Social Network <\/a>movie about Facebook . They both were at Harvard in those years and are reflecting on this and much more.<\/p>\n<p>Ever cutting and subtle, Lessig starts with:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In 2004, a Harvard undergraduate got an idea (yes, that is ambiguous) for a new kind of social network.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;and continues in the same vein.<\/p>\n<p>Zadie Smith ends with:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;<em>The Social Network<\/em> is not a cruel portrait of any particular  real-world person called \u201cMark Zuckerberg.\u201d It\u2019s a cruel portrait of us:  500 million sentient people entrapped in the recent careless thoughts  of a Harvard sophomore.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;and between the two of them there is much richness and delight to be had&#8230;<\/p>\n<div style=\"line-height: 2em; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0pt;\">Lessig, L. (2010). Sorkin vs Zuckerburg:&#8221;The Social Network&#8221; is wonderful entertainment, but its message is actually kind of evil. <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The New Republic<\/span>. Retrieved from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tnr.com\/article\/books-and-arts\/78081\/sorkin-zuckerberg-the-social-network\">http:\/\/www.tnr.com\/article\/books-and-arts\/78081\/sorkin-zuckerberg-the-social-network<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"line-height: 2em; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0pt;\">Smith, Z. (2010). Generation Why? <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The New York Review of Books<\/span>. Retrieved from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/articles\/archives\/2010\/nov\/25\/generation-why\/?pagination=false\">http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/articles\/archives\/2010\/nov\/25\/generation-why\/?pagination=false<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MARKING Shhh&#8230; go away&#8230; I&#8217;m marking&#8230;.not meant to be here&#8230;you didn&#8217;t see me &#8230; CONFRONTED My first semester marking student assignments is confronting. 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