Had a student email me earlier. The student's email made it clear that they couldn't tell the difference between the blogging assignment, and the paper they're supposed to write.
Another student apparently thought that copy/pasting a funny email into a blog post fulfilled the assignment requirements (that one got a zero).
Other students have been yelping at me that I need to make things easier for them to do their work--set up a discussion board thread where they have to post their blog topics so that they can skim and decide whose blog is worth commenting on (something they can do for themselves, just by setting up a blog roll).
I think this is, perhaps, the dumbest, most helpless, biggest bunch of speshull snowflakes I've had in a few years.
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This is why I often mutter while I am experiencing a "Dear Customer" moment, "And these people are college educated."
ReplyDeleteI figure only those who have a degree would have a job where they could afford a vacation to my location, and they do some of the stupidest things.
It sometimes seems to me like the more people are educated (especially past their level of capability), the less common sense they have.
DeleteI feel your pain. I also must say that I enjoy the fact that I have not showed up at the Community College as an instructor for over a year. My blood pressure is doing much better. God Bless you!
ReplyDeleteI had the summer off for the first time in about three or four years. I hadn't realized how much of my mental/emotional energy teaching nitwits sucked down.
DeleteI really need to take your blogging course.
ReplyDeleteUntil you figured out a way to reach out though the internet with that cricket bat, anyway.
Want a copy of one or both of the textbooks? Or just the blogging chapter? I own all the rights, so I can send you a copy, if you want.
DeleteDoes somebody have a case of the Mondays?
ReplyDeleteThere is always hard, dirty, dangerous physical labor on the shift from 3:30 AM to Noon, daily.
We can all do the right thing here & build a comfortable prison for ourselves.
Special snowflakes - awesome.
Nah, not the Mondays. It's a case of "This is what's voting today" blues.
DeleteIt's like "If you give a mouse a cookie." You offer one thing to "help" and suddenly the floodgates open. I tell my students that I didn't even get lists of things to study (aka "exam review sheet") when I was a student; they look at me like I have three heads. Nowadays some profs hand out a copy of the exam ahead of time as a "review sheet."
ReplyDeleteI also find that having a course webpage is a giant headache because then the students expect to be spoonfed everything over the web.
I will say at least one of my classes seems to be pretty on top of things THIS semester.
It actually started before I'd ever offered anything to help.
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