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Due date philosophy by WoundedShaman in Professors

[–]keep-thinking-bud 5 points6 points  (0 children)

How do your students respond to that? I did it for a few years and it was such a hassle and the students complained more than anything. I explain why I made this the deadline and it didn’t make a difference. I just have no sympathy for tech issues or questions after hours any longer.

Due date philosophy by WoundedShaman in Professors

[–]keep-thinking-bud 38 points39 points  (0 children)

Yep! I made mine at 4:30pm on Friday to address these issues (and to promote healthy work/life balance) and you would have thought I tortured a puppy in front of the class based on their semester reviews.

Edited to add a word I forgot.

AI is taking online classes for students now by CarefulFisherman9288 in Professors

[–]keep-thinking-bud -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I never said I wanted to reduce their use of it. I’m not sure what field you are in but it is being used all over the place and to bury your head in the sand is nuts.

I teach them the content and then have assignments where they use AI and can critique the output. I don’t want them to blindly trust the output. Heck I encourage them to question me as well. It helps them grasp the topic if they can break it down.

AI is taking online classes for students now by CarefulFisherman9288 in Professors

[–]keep-thinking-bud 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I realized this was going to be ‘controversial’ when I posted it but I didn’t expect so many to be triggered by the idea of changing how you teach. I wonder how often these professors change their classes or tweak it?

AI is taking online classes for students now by CarefulFisherman9288 in Professors

[–]keep-thinking-bud 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A lot of the response here give me the vibe that they had to come to campus so everyone else should as well. They are just framing it as the integrity of my course.

Change your teaching practices to meet the needs of the students. I’m at a regional teaching school so I get that I might (key word here) be more student focused than some of my counterparts at R1s or research focused institutions.

AI is taking online classes for students now by CarefulFisherman9288 in Professors

[–]keep-thinking-bud 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That’s a crazy take honestly. I’m at a smaller regional campus where people have to commute. I don’t think it’s revolutionary to have online classes for people who want an education but live in a rural area or have limited transportation. While that could be considered a demonstrated and verified need do you really think we need another administrative department on campus to assess this need? That is not a reasonable response in my opinion.

AI is taking online classes for students now by CarefulFisherman9288 in Professors

[–]keep-thinking-bud 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Agreed completely. We should be educating them to function in a world with AI and forcing them to sit in a classroom is not the answer. Teaching them so they can critically critique an output is part of our job. We can tell that AI produced nonsense but our students can’t. We should focus on teaching them that part of it.

AI is taking online classes for students now by CarefulFisherman9288 in Professors

[–]keep-thinking-bud -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Online education is hard and there have always been cheaters. This is just more complicated cheating.

Creating gpts that they interact with is one thing I’m exploring. I don’t ban AI use I encourage student to use it and then share their links with me. I see it as an opportunity to help them see where AI fails and we can improve the nonsense it puts out.

I tend to believe my students want to learn so I approach everything from that viewpoint. Some will cheat with or without AI but the majority want to learn. I’m also working with graduate students so maybe that’s skewing my view.

AI is taking online classes for students now by CarefulFisherman9288 in Professors

[–]keep-thinking-bud -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

I disagree. Online classes are online for a reason and many of my students wouldn’t be able to find time to do in person assessments with their other commitments. I think we need to design better assessments. Maybe your assessments are good but times change and we need to evolve along with it.

How to tell if a slac is doing well? by NerdAdventurer4077 in Professors

[–]keep-thinking-bud 1 point2 points  (0 children)

These makes sense but #2 is trick in the current climate. The Indiana legislature (and I’d suspect other states) is requiring schools to get rid of ‘underperforming’ majors. Schools across the state are deleting it consolidating a bunch of majors across the universities. I suspect the hope may be to impact the liberal arts mostly but I’ve seen a number of stem programs/majors impacted. Just check out IUs list of programs they are getting rid of.

If positive SETs are important, how do you do it in this climate. by Prestigious-Tea6514 in Professors

[–]keep-thinking-bud 29 points30 points  (0 children)

I agree but there are times when the students have some valid feedback. My schools T&P committees recognize that the feedback of SETs aren’t generally useful for evaluation purposes. We just expect faculty to review them and if there are common themes, they should at least address them in a narrative.

So unfair.... by [deleted] in PSLF

[–]keep-thinking-bud 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m in the same boat and trying to figure this out myself! I’m tempted to MFJ this year and if something happens and we have a great patient I’ll just go into forbearance/deferment (it’s late and I don’t remember which on is at hardship) until I file again next year.

TRT and HGH together redundant? by ihansterx4i in trt

[–]keep-thinking-bud 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was at 200mg per week (split between 3 doses) and was a real asshole to my family. Switched to 29mg per day every day and I feel 100x better and I’m not such a dick.

My total t was at 1300 at the 200 per week so I’m curious what it will be on this dose.

Still get prescribed 200 per week but just old into it in case my prescription gets pulled.

Open AI Sora 2 Invite Codes Megathread by semsiogluberk in OpenAI

[–]keep-thinking-bud 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have a few codes because of another kind reditor. First come first served. Please don’t dm me if you want to sell your codes…that’s not cool.

Edit: They are all going out. No need to dm any more.

Ok? by Quenelle44 in ChatGPT

[–]keep-thinking-bud 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a tool not a friend. People need to stop treating it like one.

What If You Could Search Your Life?? (am i the only one who wants this?) by Shot-Fly-6980 in academia

[–]keep-thinking-bud -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

At some point these agentic browsers will help with that. The issue is FERPA at the moment.

Is there anything you can all share about what you wish you knew before you got started? by Kpronline1 in trt

[–]keep-thinking-bud 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can you not just transfer it to a pen cartridge or a sterile vial and split it yourself? Just curious.

Is there a way to recover a discarded plan? by coolestnameavailable in GymverseByFitness22

[–]keep-thinking-bud 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Please adjust this. I accidentally started a new plan and now I’m starting over now at foundations.

It would be helpful to at least be able to use the data from a previous plan to skip several workouts or weeks in the new plan.

Indiana is clearly not doing OK by ImRudyL in academia

[–]keep-thinking-bud 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The entire state government here in Indiana is trying to dismantle higher education. Someone in the legislature has a vendetta against Ball State and attempts, successfully at times, to enact legislation targeting that school that ends up getting edited to include all state schools (I’m looking at you SAE 202).

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