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| MEMO FROM: M. Millman TO: Faculty and Staff DATE: Oct. 23, 2006 RE: e-portfolio You may have noticed that the Chronicle of Higher Education has recently heralded the “success” of LaGuardia’s e-portfolio program. I have it directly from the horse’s mouth, however, that this e-portfolio nonsense is just another tool in LaGuardia’s arsenal of pseudo-ed crap designed to give the impression that high-tech, high-powered education is happening here. We should all recognize e-portfolio for what it is: In fact, all the software requires of students is the ability to use a mouse to drag a picture into a window on a screen – a procedure that several lower forms of life have demonstrated the ability to carry out. With all due respect to The Chronicle, their staff is hardly technically qualified to comment on the efficacy of software-based learning systems. They and other educational journals are easily taken in by the myth that high-tech = quality education. E-portfolio, and similar claptrap, is another device that allows LaGuardia to camouflage the abysmal lack of quality in the education found here. In truth, as you know, what we offer is mostly watered-down palaver that can be absorbed and regurgitated by students with no effort whatsoever on their parts, fraudulent remedial exams passed by illiterates and innumerates, and massive grade inflation that gives students the false impression they are being prepared for competition in the workforce or to tackle the demands presented by a four-year college curriculum. E-portfolio is also a device used to assuage the conscience of a faculty who earns their livelihood as vampires preying on the hopes and aspirations of minority students while delivering precious little of real value to them. Some faculty seek to counter my arguments with the “I am just following orders” cry of the powerless. That kind of excuse was rejected by the civilized world 61 years ago and continues to be rejected to this day. As professional educators, it is our obligation to refuse to participate any longer in the ongoing hoax and to demand the kind of reforms [see April 17, 2006 MEMO] that would transform LaGuardia into the genuine institution of higher education envisioned back in 1970. |
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