AAAAAAAaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh
I just spent the last hour trying to argue with my students' implacable insistence that "there is no point in talking about a movie and what it means, because it's
fiction." They said this bemusedly, as though explaining something brutally obvious to a dimwitted 3 year old, for the umpteenth time. Thus dies a career.
I can't decide whether to laugh, quit, or get drunk.
Labels: pedagogy, youth of today
Newsflash
Being on sabbatical has caused me to forget just how badly many of my students write, and how carelessly they use words.
We now return to your usual programming.
Labels: doing good in the world, pedagogy
Something else I wish I had written
No, not the offensive but sadly typical
lame satire that generated it, but
this brilliant plea to aspiring student satirists everywhere.
Labels: pedagogy
One more thing
I am shamelessly enamored of my new pedagogical slogan, which is particularly apt given that I have spent the weekend on the assessment equivalent of climbing mt. Everest, without oxygen or sherpa:
In this class, you are either an asset, or an
ASSHAT.
Discuss amongst yourselves.
Labels: "I think I'm funny", pedagogy, shameless self-promotion
