Delicious LiveJournal Links for 12-29-2008

[andrewducker]

• Schoolchildren are more likely to disrupt lessons if they have a male teacher, a survey suggests.
  Although the survey found a general improvement in pupil behaviour since 2001, 77% of males said they had a lesson disrupted at least once a week., versus 66% of women. 69% of men and 57% of women said they had been sworn at by pupils.
  (tags: education gender school aggression)
• Bargain Hunting for Books, and Feeling Sheepish About It
  How second hand books are killing booksellers. As someone who grew up hunting through boot fairs for tatty old Heinlein novels, I'm not going to be crying too much. Times change, etc., etc.
  (tags: internet books publishing)
• Participation culture, creativity, and social change
  Fascinating video lecture on the changing culture and lifestyle that comes when people stop being an audience and start creating things themselves.
  (tags: society video culture web2.0 creativity)
• Job Recruiters Instructed To Avoid WoW Players
  Age of Conan players still ok...
  (tags: games internet jobs mmo)

Comments

[cangetmad.livejournal.com]

But on item 1, self-report from teachers of disruption may differ by gender - women might not report behaviour as disruptive when men feel it is. That's at least as persuasive an account of the data as that kids play up more for men. "Swearing" is fairly objective, though, again, people might count different words, and tend to remember incidents more or less often, since it seems to be asking for retrospective reporting. I'd be interested to see whether the same results happened in a study using pre-decided criteria and observer judgements.

[andrewducker]

What we need are video cameras in schoolrooms! That way we can show parents that their darling child is actually an evil monster :->

[kashandara.livejournal.com]

I'd agree that this could be more to do with perspectives on things from the teachers, than difference in behaviour. I certainly know when I was doing my classroom experience modules at Uni that my male partner (you take turn about, one of you teaches, the other video tapes then you swap) got more frustrated by 'distractions' which I felt if I'd been teaching the class I'd have seen more as interactions with the class than interruptions to it...

[rhythmaning.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the link to David Gauntlett's lecture - very interesting. I've nicked it for my Wordpress blog! (With a credit to you, of course.) Ta!

[andrewducker]

Pleasure!

[kjersti.livejournal.com]

I keep meaning to post this and forgetting: I really enjoy your link posts!

Generally I don't tend to find this kind of post interesting but with yours I find myself following at least one link on average and quite often two or three.

[andrewducker]

I'm glad mine are more interesting than most. I get bored easily, which probably shows in the range of things that show up :->