I am not yet clear how this relates to the current round of Students These Days Do Not Read Or Think, but I’m sure it does somehow.

in the office, and/or preferring less prestigious wfh roles, hence either have less money or less likely to impulse spend it. And they’re not buying ENOUGH avocado lattes, least of all in the city centre, hence the Despair of Small Cafe Owners every month or so in the news.

No that’s us millennials, all our avocado toast lattes have put us behind in the housing market and now we’re not having kids (hence not freeing up mid-career roles by taking time out to parent) and/or taking all the good wfh roles.

Gen Z is refusing the grindset and not putting in extra hours

The fact that the OU Psychology department gave the grad student a teaching award a day or so before the suspension is another tell. I’m surprised the social posts about it were up long enough to get cached by Google

I finished Haldor Laxness’ Under The Glacier and started on Olga Tokarcsuk’s Drive Your Plow Over The Bones of the Dead.

My assistant here has also devised a cunning method of helping me through a chunky law textbook (picking out existing notes for me to expand upon).

I’m just starting Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead - awoke this morning with an inexplicable compulsion to acquire and start that asap rather than the other options I had planned. Clearly today is Tokarczuk day!

I specifically sought them out! I suspect that would have actively slowed down the intellectual side of the process that led to me coming out & leaving the church!

I do kind of regret not having had the chance to _teach_ in the US style classroom, it sounds a there are a lot of options Aus and Switzerland just don’t have for closely working with individual students while teaching a group… but I’m glad my instructors weren’t working that closely with ME unless

I am that half (always have been, except for medieval languages)! I wildly over-researched assessment tasks, and attended lectures, and that seemed to fill in the gaps that skimping on tutorial prep left.

Figuring out how to design preparation tasks was quite a learning curve as a result.

something the instructor could _work with_, and ideally get the student to level up to “actual child psychs, albeit ones with noted investment in treating boys and girls differently” (Steve Biddulph, say) by the time they submit a research essay or midterm?

I’m guessing there would be several tasks like this and you’d use them as an opportunity to guide a hypothetical non-malicious student out of the “well this is new and threatening!” stage - if a response to this task that actually engaged with the article but citied, say, John Eldredge would be

This must come back to US courses just having a lot more class hours and more submitted work than anything I’ve ever worked with.

But I’m struggling to picture what a very GOOD answer to this task is: I suspect that if I was faced with a series of them as a student I would respond in a more rigid way than the average US student cohort.

student’s point better than the essay in q, with citations to actual evangelical thought and critique of, if not the article, the broad disciplinary assumptions. I bet the student has read such! I could do it using only resources available to me at age 19 when I was still a devout if liberal xn!

Part of the reason I came over to @dexanderson.com with questions is that I’ve never taught or studied in courses where this kind of task is set (forum responses, for participation grade, yes; and once a “reading journal”) but I’m pretty sure I could write 650 passing-grade words that made this

I have a great uncle Snooks who lived most of his life (i believe he’s still kicking but she’s not) with his sister Toot. (Pronounced with the oo from cook, not moon)

I have no idea what their actual names are.

A vivacious woman (60s?) is chatting happily to a friend about children, gardening, grandchildren, the weather, then stops abruptly, saying: "Are you listening to me?"
Friend takes a few seconds, then says: "What? No. I was daydreaming. Keep talking though. I was enjoying myself." (2)