-
Recent Posts
- 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
- Classroom Code of Norms, for students and by students 2019/09/04
Categories
Steve’s Twitter Handle
- Prepping some learning challenges/games on an advance visit to the #UMFA - students will be here next week as a par… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 14 hours ago
- Back in the game in the spring term at UVU - #teaching #ethics to undergrads. It’s not a full class yet. Spread th… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 16 hours ago
- Good morning, teaching and learning friends. https://t.co/FswvYHRIfu 20 hours ago
- Much needed mental health day scheduled and then taken today w/ my amazing wife. First time I’ve ever done it, and… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 1 day ago
- Support from our institutions is critical to our successes in supporting our students. caponeteaches.com/2019/12/09/tea… also… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 2 days 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 →