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		<title>Publish and Perish: Immortality in the Library of Babel</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 17:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The realm of speech is temporary. By the time we reach the end of a spoken sentence, each sound and syllable that preceded it is an irretrievable part of the past. As such, one unique property of the written word is its ability to preserve and immortalize an idea, a name, a person. The ancient [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=philnichols.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1366236&amp;post=280&amp;subd=philnichols&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Semantic Offenses of No Child Left Behind</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jun 2011 21:45:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Nichols</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a previous posting, I outlined the basic premise at the heart of what psychologist Wendell Johnson called the IFD Disease. According to Johnson, when people do not use precise language in goal-setting, they risk &#8220;idealizing&#8221; goals to the point that they become unreachable. When goals cannot be reached (or progress toward them cannot be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=philnichols.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1366236&amp;post=265&amp;subd=philnichols&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The IFD Disease: Semantics and Sanity</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2011 05:43:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Nichols</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When a child points to a balloon and says, &#8220;Look! A balloon!&#8221; there is little chance that English-speakers will misunderstand to what he or she is referring. The word &#8220;balloon&#8221; is a symbol that represents a tangible object in the physical world; thus, the word has extensional meaning. Words with extensional meaning do not necessarily [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=philnichols.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1366236&amp;post=254&amp;subd=philnichols&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Critique of New Commonplaces: &#8220;I Was Born This Way&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2011 15:42:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the first entry in what I hope will be a series of close examinations of several assumptions underlying contemporary public culture and discourse. The title of the series is indebted to Jacques Ellul, whose 1968 sociological tome shares the same name. In his work, Ellul systematically dismantles more than 30 axioms that held [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=philnichols.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1366236&amp;post=235&amp;subd=philnichols&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sparknotes and Semiotics (OR Reading as Transaction)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Apr 2011 05:06:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For years, teachers have fought a losing battle with students who insist on reading Sparknotes in the place of a designated text. There is a vast arsenal of excuses that educators draw from to discourage this practice. Some use extrinsic motivation, such as grades, by insisting that the unit test will include questions far too [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=philnichols.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1366236&amp;post=218&amp;subd=philnichols&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Blurred Sense of Place (Part 2)</title>
		<link>http://philnichols.wordpress.com/2011/03/19/blurred-sense-of-place-part-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Mar 2011 18:48:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Nichols</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Years ago, I started a blog with a once-popular hosting service. Don&#8217;t bother looking for it; the site has (thankfully) been lost in the deep recesses of the Internet, never to be seen again. I was in college at the time, and I knew the primary audience for my writing would be friends and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=philnichols.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1366236&amp;post=185&amp;subd=philnichols&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Blurred Sense of Place (Part 1)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 21:35:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Nichols</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the past two years, I have had the privilege of being a chaperone on my school’s seventh grade trip to Washington, D.C. It is a three day excursion that somehow manages to not only fit in visits to all of the major building, memorials, and museums in the nation’s capital, but also an extensive [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=philnichols.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1366236&amp;post=156&amp;subd=philnichols&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>76 Reasonable Questions to Ask about Any Technology</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 01:26:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Nichols</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following questions were posed by the prolific writer, philosopher, and sociologist, Jacques Ellul. Many of these questions have implications for how teachers ought to approach technology in the classroom and in conversations with students. Ecological What are its effects on the health of the planet and of the person? Does it preserve or destroy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=philnichols.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1366236&amp;post=171&amp;subd=philnichols&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Research in the Global Village</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2011 04:20:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Nichols</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My seventh grade students are currently hard at work on a project that will serve as a capstone for our unit on the question, How are mysteries solved? The project requires students to work in groups to investigate modern-day mysteries of their own choosing and to create a website that provides an overview of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=philnichols.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1366236&amp;post=151&amp;subd=philnichols&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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