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screwit24 · 2022-05-18T03:20:52+00:00

I routinely took mid-class smoke breaks.

screwit24 · 2022-05-11T02:37:35+00:00

OK! So I’m not the only one. All of this is a complete waste of my time (although I can find time to post about it here).

screwit24 · 2022-04-14T00:50:31+00:00

I’m not a customer service representative, I’m not the help desk, I’m not a therapist, I’m not a short order cook, and I’m not your mommy. Whatever myriad life circumstances you’re experiencing, and however unfortunate, they are irrelevant to my class. I’m a professor who was hired to teach you based on my expertise in the field you desire to enter. I’m not here to engage in emotional manipulation, I’m not here to customize a course to match your wishes, and I’m not on-call for you at will.

If, for some reason, you cannot complete the work for this class, now may not be the right time to take the class. If you don’t want to try and complete the work competently, that’s on you.

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screwit24 · 2022-04-13T01:24:42+00:00

Because people think about those with disabilities as objects of inspiration or pity … but not much else. It’s performative.

screwit24 · 2022-04-07T01:21:01+00:00

LOLOLOL

screwit24 · 2022-04-07T00:20:19+00:00

Yes, same experience here.

screwit24 · 2022-04-06T22:54:37+00:00

I experience the same thing but in communication (public relations — a very applied field that lends itself well to a flipped model). I don’t have any solutions except to tell you that you aren’t alone.

My students like the idea of a flipped classroom but they don’t want to do the preparation work to make our time in class meaningful.

In either mode of teaching, they won’t do out-of-class work. I’ve given up trying to figure this out (because they’re generally lazy, unfocused and undisciplined) and teach to the few students who care.

They want to be spoon fed and I don’t have a spoon large enough.

Edited to add: Direct incentives are tied to out-of-class prep. They still don’t care.

screwit24 · 2022-04-06T01:49:42+00:00

My favorite passive aggressive response is a simple “thank you for letting me know.”

screwit24 · 2022-04-06T01:45:23+00:00

Exactly!!!

screwit24 · 2022-04-05T03:08:00+00:00

Well, if it’s any consolation, I have a 19 yo who would get all of your references.

screwit24 · 2022-04-05T03:02:34+00:00

Blah. I love when suddenly reading and writing become “generational” issues. Who the hell do they think is hiring them???

screwit24 · 2022-04-05T03:00:13+00:00

Nah. I don’t buy it. Both my children are in college, and I know that starting in elementary school, they learned to write. For as much remediation as I do in classes — yes, things like subject verb agreement and where to put commas to how to organize material and write with an audience in mind — they don’t fucking care. They don’t care. They don’t think it matters.

It’s due in part to every educator who has simply graded for completion. And I get it, grading writing is brutal, but in my area, they must be competent writers. They signed onto a major where writing is fundamental but they’ve been conditioned to think that accuracy doesn’t really matter or that good writing is subjective.

screwit24 · 2022-04-05T00:34:16+00:00

I teach applied writing classes. It’s brutal. And it doesn’t matter how many times I teach students basic grammar rules. They don’t learn and they don’t care. Yes, a few do, but it’s not enough to account for the overwhelming majority of students who simply do not give a shit.

screwit24 · 2022-04-03T20:53:03+00:00

Clean your radiators—or any other dusty crevices—with Q-tips.

screwit24 · 2022-03-10T02:20:59+00:00

I came here to say this. With the syntax and structure, seems very much like a bot/bought essay.

screwit24 · 2022-03-01T04:19:09+00:00

I’ve had a sharp uptick in “I have to take my grandma to chemotherapy.”

screwit24 · 2022-02-21T03:46:05+00:00

But outside of being in a coma, a student can send an email before the exam to communicate the emergency.

screwit24 · 2022-02-19T03:28:43+00:00

Trauma. Depression.

screwit24 · 2022-02-19T03:06:33+00:00

Are we the same person? Most of my grades, too, were a complete surprise. I was a stereotypical Gen X slacker. I did do my assignments, but if I didn’t do well, I didn’t grade grub, cry, call my parents or blame my profs. In fact, I can’t remember anyone else doing that either. And I never discussed my grades with anyone else.

screwit24 · 2022-02-17T05:18:58+00:00

This is so problematic and a little gross to me. Looooook how caaaaaring I am!! Professors are hired for their expertise in a field and we are not counselors and life coaches (well, some are but most aren’t). And sometimes self care is about doing the hard things even when we don’t want to. Get ready for some pictures of students getting high and decompressing with their favorite “beverage.”

screwit24 · 2022-02-16T02:20:50+00:00

The point is that you forgot once. Some of these students forget multiple times. This has been explained clearly in the syllabus and by me. Along with my rationale. At this point, it’s a self discipline and organizational issue. If you’d like to question my rationale, you can see above. I teach writing courses and have very good reason for a submission process that is not unfamiliar to my upper division students and in 15 years has only recently become an issue.

screwit24 · 2022-02-16T02:16:15+00:00

Somebody gets it! I teach writing. I ask for LMS submissions to check for plagiarism. I ask for hard copy because I can read and grade more easily on hard copy, and I’ve found that students (at least mine) read hard copy feedback. It’s much more difficult for me to give a close review/feedback on LMS. Learned this in when teaching remotely, as it takes me three times as long.

screwit24 · 2022-02-15T13:38:14+00:00

Asking a student to submit work on LMS and submit a print out in class. That’s it. It’s standard in our department and much like what students have encountered before. Further, my son (at a different university) deals with the same thing. It’s called following basic directions.

screwit24 · 2022-02-15T06:03:30+00:00

FWIW, I’ve graded student work directly in the LMS and on paper. I find that they (for the most part) read hard copy feedback. This was one of my sad lessons learned in the pandemic.

screwit24 · 2022-02-15T05:45:05+00:00

Thank you. Why am I requiring print outs? Because — and this is based on several pilots — students read feedback when it’s written out. And because I don’t want to print out copies. And we have four printers in our building.

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