-
Recent Posts
- Teaching Memo: A Restaurant Challenge 2020/01/16
- Teaching Memo: Support from Our Institutions / Districts 2019/12/09
- Teaching Memo: Gamification, Making Items 2019/11/13
- Conference Week, 2019! UCSS and AMLE19 2019/10/31
- Teaching Memo: How to Use Film [effectively] in the Classroom 2019/10/23
- Teaching Memo: Why I Love the IDM (Inquiry Design Model) Blueprint 2019/10/11
- Gamification as a Boat-Building Exercise 2019/09/15
Categories
Steve’s Twitter Handle
- Canvas: "When what you really want is a sideways image that you cannot rotate to its proper orientation." 2 hours ago
- Excited for today’s 2 #sundance2020 films: #WelcomeToChechnya and #Influence tonight at the tower and broadway thea… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 5 hours ago
- High praise for this picture book. I read it to my sixth graders yesterday for what I called “Cold War storytime.”… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 8 hours ago
- So far, so good: #Sundance2020 is already teaching me a lot that I’d love to share with my students. #BoysState and… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 1 day ago
- Amazing movie, and the main subjects and the director and editor are here for questions. I hope I get to show this… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 1 day ago
Friends' Websites
Tag Archives: Social Norms
Traffic, and what it says about your city and its people
There’s a lot you can tell about a city by observing its traffic patterns and the habits of pedestrians on the street. In New York, for instance, the people are moving quickly – the vehicles as well. The walkers and … Continue reading
Posted in Civility, Travelogue, Travelogue 2017, Travels
Tagged backpacking, Berlin, caution, Culture, europe, european tour, european travel, expectations, germany, Italy, new york city, pedestrian, rome, social mores, Social Norms, social rules, traffic, traffic pattern, USA, utah
1 Comment
In Defense of “Argument ad Hitlerum”
If you’ve visited the internet other than to visit this site, you’ve seen the interaction dozens (or hundreds?) of times by now. One person expresses a view. The view sounds crazy to someone else. The someone else says something … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics
Tagged arguments, comparisons to the nazis, debate, Ethics, internet culture, internet mores, social mores, Social Norms, the internet
Leave a comment
Depression and Idealism
[I usually like to take an instance of scholarly work and apply it to a practical, real-life issue. I’ve set aside that rule in this post to offer a general cultural criticism to a pertinent and immediate issue in the … Continue reading
Posted in Political Commentary
Tagged Culture, Founders, Healthcare, Idealism, Philosophy, Politics, Social Norms, Violence
3 Comments
Gossip and Morality
For many of us, the moral verdict on gossip is in: gossiping is something we ought to avoid, and we do something wrong when we engage in gossip. In this article, I want to suggest that there are cases in … Continue reading
Posted in Civility, Ethics, Etiquette, Rough Ideas and Arguments
Tagged Civility, Ethics, Etiquette, Gossip, Manners, Moral Reasons, Philosophy, Social Norms, Social Science
1 Comment
Steve Capone
“Kein Mensch ist Illegal”
I’ve been noticing graffiti and stickers bearing this slogan around town here in Dresden, and I did twenty seconds of web searching to figure out what it’s about. I had a half-understanding of this from just reading the text of … Continue reading →