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April 8, 2008, 3:45 pm
Professors complain that they can’t get technology to work the way they want it to. Warren Arbogast, a technology consultant, and Scott Carlson, a Chronicle reporter, talk about the “learned helplessness” that pervades technology use on campus.
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Technology continues to change college life, and each month The Chronicle's Tech Therapy podcast offers analysis and advice on what the latest gadgets and buzzwords mean for professors, administrators, and students.
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3 Responses to Episode 20: Professors and Technology: Helpless or Hopeless?
WElcome to the Chron, Lesboprof!
Absolutely, repealing DoMA is about much more than the rights of same-sex couples, it’s also increasingly about their kids. It drives me crazy to hear lqbtq activists insisting that energy must go first and foremost into reforming policy at the state level – such reforms are welcome, sure, but only increase the limbo territory created by differences between state and federal laws.
And the resource guide dustup … srsly? They create and fuel homophobia in their churches, and complain when queers are directed to faith communities where they won’t actually be beaten up? You’d think the Christers would appreciate lgbtqs being directed elsewhere, to reduce the chances of their children being recruited …
The fact that you think it’s great for colleges to ask students to mark their sexual orientation and gay soldiers to have no way of being discharged when they are getting beaten up in the Army gives me pause. The former practice is an invasion of privacy and the latter policy shift means lots of gay people will be tormented in combat situations where we cannot help them. As a bisexual soldier, I know what I am talking about.
Regarding kids being raised by same-sex couples, I was raised by a lesbian couple in the 1970s and 1980s. My mom and her partner did the best they could and I credit them for being good nurturers. But I want as few children as possible to endure what I did growing up (long story). Adoption agencies should not place children in same-sex couples unless all other recourses have been exhausted first. The goal of child social services must always be the welfare of the child and the larger needs of society, not the specific desire of same-sex couples to have children without biologically conceiving them. The government should not do anything to encourage arrangements where children have to grow up in households raised by same-sex couples.