tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post2081257124476940789..comments2023-10-15T04:23:50.187-04:00Comments on College Misery: What are edu-critters on ... ?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-77857653866042998562013-03-16T22:35:21.300-04:002013-03-16T22:35:21.300-04:00Where does it come from? From idiot administrators...Where does it come from? From idiot administrators who pay them to say it?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-14077304440275797472013-03-16T13:56:16.574-04:002013-03-16T13:56:16.574-04:00There is also a disturbing movement afoot at my un...There is also a disturbing movement afoot at my university to have the librarians (1) teach instructional design to faculty and (2) school them in pedagogy that incorporates technology. This, on top of the instructional designers that already exist and seem to think that telling me "more cool stuff" Blackboard can do counts as deep thinking on pedagogy in my discipline and guaranteed Liz Imbriehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10789417084922765275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-47247809756721331482013-03-16T00:43:28.179-04:002013-03-16T00:43:28.179-04:00"...but, of course, you'll need a couple ..."...but, of course, you'll need a couple of class sessions to get everyone up to speed!"<br /><br />Right. And that will be after I offer up a class session to the library, and one to health services, and one to the transfer program (this is a CC). Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02906546940408742913noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-52111777466720191322013-03-15T11:53:58.875-04:002013-03-15T11:53:58.875-04:00@drunk - the phenomenon which you see in the gradi...@drunk - the phenomenon which you see in the grading is called the Dunning-Kruger effect.<br /><br />For my own story, I was told by a Professor of Education a couple of years ago that "the most important thing for a successful class is a good syllabus".Paddingtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07952088638231881617noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-71993568524560470112013-03-15T11:36:27.618-04:002013-03-15T11:36:27.618-04:00We just haven't seen Real Communism...I mean, ...We just haven't seen Real Communism...I mean, real Wikis, or real rubrics, or real whatever it is.Alex Smallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01570010094558735159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-74411292542188773372013-03-15T06:51:34.420-04:002013-03-15T06:51:34.420-04:00I guess what has really been smacking my gob -- I ...I guess what has really been smacking my gob -- I mean, I knew edu-critters generally have particularly passionate personas -- has been the utter certitude that their particular fad is universally and unequivocally successful. <br /><br />Several times during these webminars, I've tried to raise questions along the lines of "I have been using [insert fad] but have been experiencing [Aware and Scaredhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14700345349806280657noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-39297844789566348612013-03-14T22:12:24.678-04:002013-03-14T22:12:24.678-04:00I am clearly very slow at mastering the tea-partyi...I am clearly very slow at mastering the tea-partying indentations in the comments. My comment was in reply to the OP, not to @drunk's comment.Peter Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00754472537710161295noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-47892458802952025742013-03-14T22:07:59.850-04:002013-03-14T22:07:59.850-04:00"From where does such unabashed hubris rise?&..."From where does such unabashed hubris rise?"<br /><br />I'll take a guess. From the fact they only teach future K-12 teachers, and absorbing/appreciating/imitating the kind of feel-good platitudes that make up their discourse is part of the requirement for that job. If they're really successful they don't teach at all, and instead staff a "Center for Snowflake Peter Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00754472537710161295noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-84186702839233848702013-03-14T20:57:06.228-04:002013-03-14T20:57:06.228-04:00Ugh. It sounds like you may not have even this muc...Ugh. It sounds like you may not have even this much control, but I make my students rate themselves and each other using a fixed number of points (n x 100, where n=number of people in group). They can assign each group member between 90 and 110 points, but the total has to add up to n x 100. I use the results as a multiplier for the group project grade (so an individual student can get between Contingent Cassandrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08161652083031423415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-5147154811534027402013-03-14T19:46:48.801-04:002013-03-14T19:46:48.801-04:00As much as I would like to, I don't have contr...As much as I would like to, I don't have control over a group project that's taught across all sections of the course.<br /><br />When asked to rate the quality of their contributions and those of their group members, the C and D students consistently give themselves and each other 9s and 10s out of 10. Of course, the actual A and A+ students are highly self-critical and rate themselves drunk in a midnight choirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15648918436053645324noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-52719108152205630832013-03-14T19:27:51.916-04:002013-03-14T19:27:51.916-04:00Amen. I fear that this is one of the results of t...Amen. I fear that this is one of the results of the rise of the Ed.D. Never mind if you have a Ph.D. and decades of experience in the classroom (neither of which, mind you, will definitely make you a good teacher, but they do offer certain opportunities), you're not qualified to opine on pedagogy unless you've studied it (preferably divorced from any actual content). My state, like Contingent Cassandrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08161652083031423415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-91605526032121292832013-03-14T19:24:26.221-04:002013-03-14T19:24:26.221-04:00And I've apparently been lecturing to my stude...And I've apparently been lecturing to my students (in 20-30 person comp and occasionally lit sections) for the past 2.5 decades. Admittedly, the registration software does label my sections "lecture," but I think that's as opposed to lab, or. . . .well, I don't know what else (are there seminars? If so, why aren't my classes labeled as such? Maybe because they're Contingent Cassandrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08161652083031423415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-64983642147908225042013-03-14T18:51:48.817-04:002013-03-14T18:51:48.817-04:00Geez Annie, you mean it's not a good idea to a...Geez Annie, you mean it's <b>not</b> a good idea to ask a particularly flaky flake if s/he was dropped on their head as a child? <br /><br />Damn ... now 50% of my feedback is gone!Aware and Scaredhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14700345349806280657noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-19849449911174324432013-03-14T17:52:50.809-04:002013-03-14T17:52:50.809-04:00Oh lord. We had an ongoing campus "conversati...Oh lord. We had an ongoing campus "conversation" about "student success."<br /><br />Did you know that students perform better when we encourage them instead of berating them? Apparently berating is believed to be the preferred instructional delivery method on our campus. Annie Oakleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02396950355961607377noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-12828803033076986982013-03-14T16:54:44.398-04:002013-03-14T16:54:44.398-04:00CC, I had an adminflake who was so excited by the ...CC, I had an adminflake who was so excited by the "new" technique of scaffolding. <br /><br />Was totally unwilling to believe it was a concept pioneered by a Russian psychologist who had died over 50 years before. <br /><br />Some time it hurts to know more than they do.Aware and Scaredhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14700345349806280657noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-2853971374459874602013-03-14T16:34:31.078-04:002013-03-14T16:34:31.078-04:00The really scary thing is that at least two of the...The really scary thing is that at least two of these combined -- rubrics and peer assessment -- are believed, at least in some circles, to be the key to making MOOCs credit-worthy. <br /><br />After several decades in the business, I'd say that the only thing harder than teaching students to write (well) is teaching them to assess each others' writing (well). Mind you, it's a Contingent Cassandrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08161652083031423415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-16383030477561109042013-03-14T15:58:46.047-04:002013-03-14T15:58:46.047-04:00Just as a guess, I'd say they're high on l...Just as a guess, I'd say they're high on lack of rigor and disciplinary faddism. I've known some really smart edu-critters, but they are definitely rare gems. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com