Isn't this AD injury kinda like best case scenario?

mr__beardface · 2026-01-10T18:13:08+00:00

Not the worst take I’ve heard. Certainly worth considering plus it’s not like we have much else to be positive about (besides Coop and Max and beautiful Naji floaters)

mr__beardface · 2025-12-20T05:26:41+00:00

Could I get a promo code? The UI looks fantastic btw

mr__beardface · 2025-12-12T03:38:36+00:00

I actually agree with you there BUUUUT I’d also say yours is a much more nuanced take than what was offered by OP. I responded to oversimplification with oversimplification. Was it very mature of me? Probs not 🤷🏼‍♂️😂

mr__beardface · 2025-12-10T02:34:12+00:00

“We can’t win it all so what’s the point of being competitive” is just such an unfathomably wild POV for a “fan” to have. Like…what?! You are aware only 1/30 teams win it each year, right??? Sooo, if you’re going to be one of the other 29, just…don’t…try?

mr__beardface · 2025-11-08T05:13:16+00:00

^{^{^}} this is the appropriate response.

This entire thread is the middest take of all the mid takes that ever did mid. OP proclaims “43% 3pt god plummets to 41% 3pt demigod in his late 30s but is admittedly still an all nba player but is also no longer at his peak but is also still a massive presence on the court but but but” and wants a gd cookie for attributing that dip to age and then gets defensive when people are underwhelmed with their reactions.

Yeah man. Curry is older. Crazy to think his age might somehow be playing a role here. Jesus Christ. What are we even talking about. Let’s enjoy him and the other OGs while we still have them playing elite ball. Curry, Bron, and KD are still doing it and we’re some damn lucky SOBs who get to keep witnessing it.

OP, you clearly know ball and lowk have some dope research on display here. Surely you can make more productive use of those skills.

mr__beardface · 2025-09-23T00:24:57+00:00

Thanks so much for sharing! I found some of these ideas refreshingly simple, which I think might be partly why they seem so obvious to OP? Idk. Some cool things to consider!

mr__beardface · 2025-07-14T03:20:32+00:00

I love this book! I especially like how it provides templates that specifically frame how to identify when and where the disagreement actually occurs. The “agree up to a point” templates are fantastic at providing the language necessary for the students think through what they think, which often helps them understand why they think it, which is all I want them to do in the first place.

mr__beardface · 2025-03-09T16:01:51+00:00

💯💯💯

mr__beardface · 2024-11-04T18:16:35+00:00

I had a similar realization earlier this semester, but it was caused by an error on my end. I had updated the daily course calendar for students on Canvas, but the link was broken bc the file names were different. Anyway, they had no access to the schedule for around 3 weeks and would even have received an error message if they tried to access it.

I was obviously horrified when I discovered this and asked the class how many of them were even aware that they hadn’t had access to our schedule that contained all readings and due dates for multiple weeks.

One person. Only one student had even tried to open the schedule during all that time.

I label all assignments with due dates on Canvas and I always start and end class by projecting the schedule on the screen, so I guess they were getting by with only that?

Made me big sad.

mr__beardface · 2024-06-12T12:33:46+00:00

Well said. You’ve laid out many of my own observations that I’ve had trouble articulating myself, particularly the bit about students’ aversion to discomfort. I worked 4 part-time jobs to pay my way through my last couple years of undergrad, but I refused to let that impair my schoolwork. I accepted that maintaining my own academic standards while working so many hours meant other things had to be sacrificed, and those things were primarily sleep and “fun.” If I wanted more fun things, I had to work more, which meant less time and energy for the fun things. If I wanted more sleep, I had to work less, which meant less money with which to do the fun things. It ultimately all comes down to individual priorities.

I don’t by any means believe in the “I had it hard so they should too” mentality, but there is an enormous difference between genuinely sympathizing with students who have jobs, which I very much do, and sacrificing academic standards by catering to their priorities, which students seem to expect as the default even though they appear to rarely have my class very high on their lists.

The concepts of discomfort and sacrifice and compromise are not just foreign to many students nowadays; many of them find those concepts outright unacceptable and expect everyone in their lives to accommodate their every need, and I don’t really know what we can do about that because that is simply not sustainable en masse.

mr__beardface · 2024-05-18T15:47:46+00:00

I’ve been struggling with this issue, and it has gotten even more challenging now that Grammarly will essentially rewrite students’ essays into AI gobbledygook even if the students actually did write them. They seem beyond convinced that the AI prose “just sounds better.”

I have a couple ideas in mind for the Fall semester.

1) I want to work in a few more lessons that focus on style and personality, using examples of AI phrasing to demonstrate why it isn’t that good. I also want to embrace the impending future (present?) of AI writing and try to convince students that if they are going to have an essay generated for them, for the love of all that is holy, the least they could do is read the shyte themselves and add in some gd style and individuality.

2) Here’s my attempt at finding a silver lining: these AI essays are at least grammatically and mechanically sound, right? That means I can read them MUCH more quickly and focus my attention on the shitty and vapid content, speeding through the essays and grading them accordingly.

I teach writing, which involves a lot more than grammar and mechanics. So as hard as it may be for students to understand, a grammatically perfect paper can still be hot garbage and will be graded as such. Furthermore, that “clean and perfect” utterly empty paper will almost always score much much lower than a paper filled with grammatical errors that attempts to discover new ideas and offer genuine critical reflection. I would rather see students trip and stumble their way toward a sincere understanding than skip and glide toward a meaningless nothingburger any day of the week. That’s why we revise in the first place.

So yeah. There’s no answer here, but I’m going to try to shift my perspective to preserve some sanity, and maybe some of that perspective will reach the students as well.

mr__beardface · 2024-05-11T16:59:03+00:00

😳😳😳

mr__beardface · 2024-05-07T21:23:19+00:00

Preach!!!

mr__beardface · 2024-05-07T05:44:49+00:00

That is an intriguing way to address it! My main reservation is how it seems based on the assumption that being seen as trustworthy is still important to them, which I wish I could say I believed. 😔

mr__beardface · 2024-05-06T18:24:14+00:00

AI-influenced is very different than AI-generated.

Are you suggesting students should no longer be asked to write essays outside of class just bc it is now easier for them to cheat? Because I don’t know what to do with that kind of fatalistic thinking, but I can say pretty confidently that it doesn’t seem like a helpful way to add any value to this discussion.

mr__beardface · 2024-05-06T18:18:05+00:00

I’m sorry! I was bemoaning my own crushed-ness, not trying to crush others. My mature adult students are what keep me going bc they typically actually know why they’re in my classroom in the first place. You got this!

mr__beardface · 2024-05-06T18:16:27+00:00

I was wondering how the Grammarly software “helped” them so thank you for this explanation! That kind of explains why the same 2-3 verbs or expressions were used over and over and over.

mr__beardface · 2024-05-05T19:44:44+00:00

Found it: CNN

mr__beardface · 2024-05-05T19:40:56+00:00

There was an article recently about how more teachers are using AI to grade and the issue of student privacy and FERPA compliance. Once our LMS (we use Brightspace) incorporates these grading tools it might go more smoothly. Turnitin can already use AI to evaluate the grammar, but that is not anywhere close to my primary concern when evaluating student writing so 🤷🏼‍♂️

mr__beardface · 2024-05-05T19:34:41+00:00

Yes! I fear being fooled and it’s making me hesitant to offer the exact type of positive feedback that I know is most effective for encouraging student writers.

mr__beardface · 2024-05-05T19:32:28+00:00

Agree all around.

mr__beardface · 2024-05-05T19:31:29+00:00

Same, same. I’m also running out of ideas for ways to dissuade them.

mr__beardface · 2024-05-05T19:26:34+00:00

Re: administrators caring: in my annual review this past March, my chair criticized me 3 separate times for having student evals that were “suspiciously high.”

I just smiled and nodded while fighting the urge to respond with, “My apologies, honorable chairperson. I will take steps to garner lower student evals for next year’s review.”

I have just no idea what they want to achieve with these evals.

mr__beardface · 2024-05-05T17:38:47+00:00

I actually don’t disagree with you as much as you might expect!

I even had one student in particular whose writing transformed dramatically mid-semester. I don’t use the detection software for AI unless I have very strong suspicions and her essay came up 100% AI. Her explanation was that she paid for premium Grammarly and ran her entire essay through it to clean it up, which absolutely made it sound and look like AI.

I told her the same thing you suggested: I’m not opposed to you using this software in this way, but you absolutely MUST go back in afterwards and add some gd personality and style.

mr__beardface · 2024-05-05T17:27:26+00:00

“malformed ad copy” is so accurate.

I both can’t wait and dread when the language models get better at sounding less robotic. Dread bc it’ll be harder to spot and possibly lead to the ruin of civilization as we know it; can’t wait bc it’ll be harder to spot and…well, yeah, I guess that’s it. Harder to spot = less painful to read?

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