Online Students Say the Darndest Things
“…there has to be a line and the law draws the line where it draws it and it is unreasonable to ask a merchant to analize minors on a case-by-case basis.“ It’s called spell-check. Use it, every time.
Teaching
Last Class
I had lunch today with a guy who is well-connected in local politics. We talked about how the Antelope Valley High School District has recently approved an online charter school, aimed to service “at risk” students who do not succeed… Continue Reading
Ignorance
Americans know very little have surprising gaps in their knowledge about themselves, and know even less about the world around them. These kinds of polls and “man on the street” interviews, showing shocking ignorance of even basic facts about the… Continue Reading
The Teddy Bear Master
Sometimes you read things that are so stupefyingly weird that they just leave you agog, as in: “It was literally stuffed animals being manipulated by the boys, walking around going ‘yeoowww’ and talking in funny voices”. Depressingly, I’ll probably have… Continue Reading
One Reason Why Intelligent Debate On Immigration Is Lacking
What I’d Like To Say To Whining Students
I’ve got a lot of students in my online classes who aren’t getting good grades. Of course, this is somehow my fault, and for three days now, they’ve been whining about it like excited kindergartners being told there is no… Continue Reading
Lots of Class
My second live class will come to an end tomorrow. Fortunately, there isn’t a lot of preparation I have to do for it — I will give a lecture similar to the one I finished with my last live class,… Continue Reading
Drop Outs
Sure enough, two of my students (in a class of four) have withdrawn from my graduate-level seminar in Business Law and Ethics for Managers — rather than write and turn in a cited 1,500-word paper. One of them claimed a… Continue Reading
Shorthanded
Only half my students showed up to class tonight. Today was the day that midterm papers were due. I haven’t got papers handed physically from the two who didn’t show up, and they haven’t sent them in by e-mail either.… Continue Reading
Irritating Morning
I seem to have lost the ability to sleep in, even on the weekends. This is unfortunate, because I could really use the sleep as only rarely in my life have I had the ability to fall asleep at an… Continue Reading