Second
Thoughts
A home for personal meditations, critiques of art and literature, politics, sketches, and deconstructions that dive beneath the surface of thought. Experiment with form here, relate with current events, read and talk about a book you’ve never read or perhaps want to read, and criticize something, anything, everything.
Where Do We Go From Here? The State of English Education
We live in an age of information abundance. Open any social media, any news (I use that term liberally) website, any Google search, and you’ll notice the overwhelm of informational noise. With so much distraction, it’s vital that our students learn to discern between trustworthy and untrustworthy sources and to reflect on how bias and motive can influence the information they consume. Without getting into specifics, we’ve seen the faltering of this skill taken to extremes in recent years—people falling victim to disinformation without considering the incentives or motivations behind their consumption.