Tag: the internet
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I got LadyHacked!
And it was the best thing ever. There’s forever a hackathon going on in the Philly tech scene. They’re all pretty male-dominated. But not LadyHacks. The whole point was to introduce hackathons to the women in tech community (and the female content creators, marketers, designers, etc. who support the community). Eighty percent of the attendees,…
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I want to be a teacher, but I don’t want to quit the internet
Stories like this terrify me. Shouldn’t teachers be practitioners of their content? Shouldn’t an English teacher be expected to write and publish? A professor is. Is the purpose of high school to teach content and practice, or morals? Can’t we have both? These stories make me wonder if teaching is worth the scrutiny. Sometimes I…