Got an email from a student asking to rewrite their AI paper. The email was composed by AI, I think, because it was highly respectful and thanked me for catching them.

Gonna try to start using this site more. It's a hellsite, but not as relentlessly depressing. This is what I bring to the table. Does anyone have shoes that match my jacket or want to start a ska band?

Another 88 less obviously used it.

Are any other educators dealing with an absolute dumpster fire of semester?

42 of 211 opened the Chicago Style walk-through video I recorded. 32 of 211 did not respond to the prompt at all. Another 57 ignored minimum prompt requirements. 38 didn't submit their midterm at all. 13 submitted papers clearly from another class. 22 obviously used AI.

Took an adhd break from grading papers to do a petty check in on recurring themes in student work this semester. 62 of 211 students spelled my name wrong. 194 of 211 students put bibliographic entries in their footnotes despite multiple warnings not to.

We get paid the same... we both teach the same course. I don't think they even read the papers. One with an A+ was riddled with factual inaccuracies.

I'm putting in 60+ hours a week teaching 7 different preps this semester for the exact same pay. Why?

I'm about to have a mental breakdown because I just saw another lecturer's feedback to student work on Canvas. Like I put so much work into feedback. Dozens of hours a week. This dude just copied and pasted, "Fantastic work!" A dozen times. 80% of his class got full credit. No annotations.

I swear to God, if I see Quotidian Disruption misused one more time...

Me in class making fun of Victorian Era lads for doing bumps of Buffalo Tongue to get boners and everyone laughs. Me making fun of Chiropractors and everyone gets mad.

How can I expect my students to read history when I can't even get my wife to?!? Does she even love me?

Just sent a follow on Twitter to DM

That would be great! I have a lot of similar materials, but I normally don't teach upper div soc classes so I'm definitely second guessing my content delivery considering how rough this class has been.

Def on my prep list to put together something along those lines in lecture form for next semester. We had an open workshop on it, but only five students, five who already could read and understand the articles attended.
Is this a formal lesson or just go through the article during a class?

This also might just be venting, I'm also struggling to get them to read prompts. It's been a hell of a semester.

A majority of the class, most of them soc majors are failing and I have no idea what to do. 4/4

I can't turn this into a intro course or a general methods course at this level. I have prepared a bunch or peripheral materials on how to read articles and identify things like research q's, lit review, research methods etc and either its not helping or they aren't making use of the resources. /3

Two questions about students.

Are peer revied articles not being assigned in CC courses or lower div courses?

Or are students not engaging effectively with the assigned readings at that level?

Main q, what can I do to help facilitate reading comprehension at this level? /2

So any CC or JC Sociology or Social Science instructors/professors, I have a question and need some help.

I'm teaching an upper division Social Movements class, most of my students are transfer students and soc majors. Not all of them, but a large number are unable to read scholarly lit. /1

Only in America can a university seek to close deficits by closing revenue generating English and foreign language departments when not even considering for a second whether a money losing football program should be cut.

And some people say American exceptionalism is dead. Pshaw.

For fun AI moments in teaching. I had a student swear they didn't use chatgpt for a paper AFTER I pointed out they left in passage, "My responses are generated based on a mixture of licensed data, data created by human trainers, and publicly available information."

It's maddening watching conservatives (and unfortunately moderates) now just openly defending white nationalists and eugenicists.

The Overton window shifted way more aggressively than I could've imagined.

The fact that the uncritically platform this when he and his project are illiberal by his own admission is astonishing.

reskeet with the first album you bought with your own money

Shouldn’t have been surprised that it only took two tweets for a Twitter account to go from “fuck the strike, you guys make thousands of dollars an episode!” to “Civil rights ruined this country” and “Hitler offered a good alternative to communism” but I was

Oh no, the discourse has found us!

Keep Santa Cruz weird as praxis.

At least we aren't Mastodon nerds

I remember making a dumb character in a video game over decade ago with assassin in the name. Game was like nope, that contains profanity.

I guess since then, the only two options are overzealous moderation or letting people just pick n-word as their handle. I'm not a tech guy someone help me out.