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What children do to a marriage

Our friend says he had to teach himself to fall in love with his new wife after she became the mom version of herself. Then I started to think about how a child is like a boarder you've agreed to take into your home without meeting him and whom you've committed to house for 20 years no matter how he acts. I don't believe that parents have that much to do with how their kids turn out, so it doesn't seem that different from making a commitment to an utter stranger. That's a lot of stressful changes to choose to undergo all at once.

Then I started think about how we believe marriage is only worthwhile if it makes your life better. If the marriage is meant to bank two people's efforts so that each can withdraw energy when he or she needs it, then children have to disrupt the whole purpose of the marriage. My husband says that children may negate the purpose of the marriage but that we both already know how to put off short term happiness for long term gain, so he sees it as just a longer-term version of that short-term deferral. I'm not sure what other stressful life-change I would choose to undertake at the same time that I've deliberately undermined my marriage, but having a child seems to require that kind of decision.

I don't know.

Blog against maternal guilt

http://adequateparenting.com/?p=393#_ftn1

LIB 2

Encyclopedias

Publishing Cycle

Creators v Consumers

Citations

Famous Plagiarism/Common Plagiarism

For almost every week, have students find the readings and a group teach the concept

Normal and Alive

Packing up my office to move and found a sticky note where I'd copied down something that G. Orwell said about us. "The fact to which we have to cling, as to a life-belt, is that it is possible to be a normal decent person and yet to be fully alive."

Taurus

LIB 101

Fridays, 9-10am

Day 1 1/15
Rules/Syllabus
Trails Test
Homework: fill out worksheet about academic history, learner attitudes and research experience. One article summary of a recent news story (last 2 years) about information literacy (what questions did you have after you read it, what experiences have you had that are related).

Day 2 1/22
Into: quick write about goals for the class
Activity for What is Info Comp (maybe the notecards in groups with State/Explain/Example or 35)
Readings defining information
Homework: read Siva, research and summarize who he is, what people say about him that influence your understanding of his article

Day 3 1/29
Activity for Generations and Technology (Quotations activity)
Siva
Homework: read an article about info use in jobs

Day 4 2/5
(SCIL Works, Long Beach)
Communities and information
How do people find out?

2/12 President's Day

Day 5 2/19
How google works
Defining trengths and weaknesses (these should be general enough that they can be applied to any info tool)

Day 6 2/26
Student interviews about info seeking and use
Developing hypotheses about inquiry
homework: read articles about adult literacy levels, comment on my blog post about literacy; post summaries of interviews because we'll come back to them later

Day 7 3/5
Literacy

Day 8 3/12
Tools
homework: find one scholarly article, two popular articles and three websites on the same topic and fill out eval sheets for each

Spring Break

Day 9 3/26

Day 10 4/2

Day 11 4/9
CARL -- In class essay

Day 12 4/16

Day 13 4/23

Day 14 4/30
LOEX

Day 15 5/7

Finals

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What about sociopolitical concerns about who gets to create knowledge?

Guests to be interviewed about how they relate to information to create their own knowledge, what they're curious about, what information they seek out for themselves:
Hal, Jon, Matt, Dick, Elizabeth... any other women?

Elmborg -- Social/political
http://slis.uiowa.edu/~elmborg/Literacies-Large-and-Small.pdf
Hensley -- Inquiry
Swanson?

Use Hal's anti-plagiarism lesson about Chris Anderson