{"id":85690,"date":"2023-02-22T13:14:12","date_gmt":"2023-02-22T18:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=85690"},"modified":"2023-02-22T15:44:35","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T20:44:35","slug":"academics-even-with-the-best-intentions-and-especially-if-weve-never-left-school-dont-realize-that-were-all-swimming-in-our-own-little-pond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2023\/02\/22\/academics-even-with-the-best-intentions-and-especially-if-weve-never-left-school-dont-realize-that-were-all-swimming-in-our-own-little-pond\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Academics, even with the best intentions, and especially if we\u2019ve never left school, don\u2019t realize that we\u2019re all swimming in our own little pond.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/advice\/2023\/02\/17\/help-students-get-jobs-faculty-must-learn-new-skills-opinion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>Why Faculty Must Learn to Swim in Other Waters<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from insidehighered.com by Rachel Toor, professor of creative writing at Eastern Washington University in Spokane.<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpts:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Academics, even with the best intentions, and especially if we\u2019ve never left school, don\u2019t realize that we\u2019re all swimming in our own little pond.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Most faculty members continue to teach how they were taught. We focus on our disciplines. We indoctrinate students into academic conventions and genres. We sling jargon like short-order cooks. We ask students to write 20-page research papers\u2014the likes of which few professions would ever require.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>But how often do faculty members require students to create final projects that will help them get a job?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>How many professors are adept at writing a one-page job cover letter? Or a one-page r\u00e9sum\u00e9?<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"in-article-blocks\">\n<div id=\"block-dfp-article_in_article_low\" class=\"block block-dfp even\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<div id=\"dfp-ad-article_in_article_low-wrapper\" class=\"dfp-tag-wrapper\"><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From DSC:<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">I appreciate these great thoughts here from Rachel Toor. Besides helping students learn about networking (and actually putting those skills into practice), applying their research skills to finding good job\/organization fits, write effective cover letters, etc., I think such real-world skill development needs to be integrated into the very <em>core<\/em> of what they are teaching. It needs to be integrated into the curriculum.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why Faculty Must Learn to Swim in Other Waters &#8212; from insidehighered.com by Rachel Toor, professor of creative writing at Eastern Washington University in Spokane. Excerpts: Academics, even with the best intentions, and especially if we\u2019ve never left school, don\u2019t realize that we\u2019re all swimming in our own little pond. 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