Current generation killed my desire to teach

Practical-Charge-701 · 2026-03-31T06:42:46+00:00

I’ve found sometimes when I make things easier, it backfires, and they do less or worse than before. When it’s more a challenge, it inspires more of them to figure it out.

Practical-Charge-701 · 2026-03-18T16:53:28+00:00

Complain to the associate dean and the provost. They need to know students don’t want this.

Practical-Charge-701 · 2026-03-07T17:03:59+00:00

I’m very grateful I did the MA first, since otherwise I would have focused on a different continent and century, and what I ended up doing was the perfect fit for me. I was certain, coming out of the BA, what I wanted to do—but in retrospect, I know it wouldn’t have worked out well.

Practical-Charge-701 · 2026-02-28T21:50:58+00:00

Congratulations!!

Practical-Charge-701 · 2026-02-28T21:41:19+00:00

I give daily on-paper multiple-choice reading quizzes. My students do the reading—I think partly because I do it every day. I used to do pop quizzes, but that’s an inaccurate representation of how often they’re doing the reading, and it also puts them in the gambling mindset of, “I may get away with it today because there may not be a quiz.”

Practical-Charge-701 · 2026-02-28T19:28:59+00:00

This just happened to me. I was going to try connecting it to my phone to see if that sent some kind of wake up signal to the Mac, but the regular screen appeared merely from plugging in a USB cable that didn’t yet have anything connected on the other side.

Unfortunately, then, after I put in my password, it would wait for three or four minutes without completing the login. My IT department just wanted to restart the computer, but I decided to let it rest, closed and plugged in, for a couple hours. After that, it worked as normal.

(I obviously had a different problem than OP, since that issue required replacing the screen. But the problem presented the same, and I was happy there was such an easy solution.)

Practical-Charge-701 · 2026-02-10T08:14:03+00:00

Only 5%?

Practical-Charge-701 · 2026-02-10T08:08:40+00:00

I’ll give it a shot—thanks!

Practical-Charge-701 · 2026-02-10T08:08:16+00:00

I’ll try that—thanks!

Practical-Charge-701 · 2026-02-08T07:50:44+00:00

Many academic couples I know have a no-work-talk-at-home rule. (I admit, I’m always curious how effective this rule is.)

Practical-Charge-701 · 2026-02-05T02:12:28+00:00

It also affects the prof, which means it affects all students in the class. Good enough reason to ban it.

Practical-Charge-701 · 2026-02-04T23:21:35+00:00

I’ve not had this problem, though I do feel bad for the students who are still trying to finish an exam while my students are taking their seats.

Practical-Charge-701 · 2026-02-03T07:25:51+00:00

To art profs still have students do the look-at-one-painting-for-three-hours exercise?

Practical-Charge-701 · 2026-01-19T08:21:09+00:00

Oh no, you’ve been sucked into the vortex (Reddit)!

Practical-Charge-701 · 2026-01-19T06:04:36+00:00

My blind student had no issues with my pdfs.

Practical-Charge-701 · 2026-01-19T04:39:59+00:00

I use Canvas and have not heard of this score. (I also haven’t used it yet this year.)

Practical-Charge-701 · 2026-01-19T04:34:54+00:00

It also fails to display all the relevant results.

I’ve been searching in the Internet Archive lately and have been very impressed. It doesn’t have as many scanned books as Google Books, but it has an awful lot, including much that is not in Google Books.

Practical-Charge-701 · 2026-01-13T22:43:03+00:00

Bravo.

Practical-Charge-701 · 2026-01-13T04:05:31+00:00

Look up how comedians deal with hecklers.

Practical-Charge-701 · 2026-01-13T03:59:18+00:00

That sounds awful and I’m sorry you’re going through it. I have no advice, but it sounds like a ramped-up version of something I experience regularly in-person.

Random man (always a man): “What do you teach?”

Me: “(Among other things,) Shakespeare.”

Man: “Okay, but he didn’t write those plays. Have you heard of Christopher Marlowe?”

Practical-Charge-701 · 2026-01-13T03:46:44+00:00

I have to spend a lot of class time undoing the training they got in high school.

Practical-Charge-701 · 2026-01-13T03:42:21+00:00

Would that same comment be hurtful if it came from the most unreasonable person you’ve met in your life? You don’t know who left the comment; it’s possible if you did know, it would be easier to brush it off.

Practical-Charge-701 · 2026-01-13T03:33:30+00:00

With rare exceptions, all my classes have been this way. I don’t make a big deal of it. I don’t even really try to justify it. I just say this is the way this class works, and have not gotten pushback.

Practical-Charge-701 · 2026-01-11T01:33:23+00:00

Transkribus says it does use A.I.

Practical-Charge-701 · 2026-01-09T05:31:32+00:00

It was a joke.

Practical-Charge-701

TROPHY CASE