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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What makes you professors so much more special than anyone else that needs to make a living and has to interact with the general public?

It looks to me like there might be some job openings coming up in academia![/quote]

Don't you think they'd do nursery home care or prison care, or meat processing online if they could, to save lives? Also, faculty at colleges tend to be older than the general working population - the youngest faculty are in their low 30s these days! [/quote]

Such the 'tude.  You guys seem perfectly happy to use whatever excuse to put out a low quality online product.

It would be interesting to see that this attitude is more prevalent in the humanities professors than those with greater numerical literacy.[/quote]

PP here. I am not in the humanities. I teach very math-heavy courses, actually. So I do understand the statistics. Perhaps you don't. And we haven't even seen the statistics on long-term damage yet! Switching my courses to online would actually be *much* more work than simply showing up to class with my existing class notes!
Glad to see how much the parents of our students value our lives, and the lives of our kids. Thanks so much for caring for us! I assume you are volunteering to work in a nursing home at the moment, because it's such a low-risk profession, and you could help people so much. I know they are looking for staff atm.[/quote]

Another professor PP. I am in STEM. My "numerical literacy" is quite good, and so is my ability to read the peer-reviewed journal articles that are coming out on how this virus affects various organ systems. I will +1 everything this PP said. It would have been SO much easier to show up to class and teach my courses face to face. Converting to online meant I had to re-think how to do some of the assignments and group activities. I have spent hours finding online resources that allow my students to engage in the kind of inquiry-based learning they would have been doing in class, that are not impossible for them to download or understand how to use without me there to walk them through it. I also spend a lot more time grading now, because I can't gauge students' understanding on the spot. I am having them write little journal entries where they ask questions about things they don't understand, and I then have to type out responses to each and every one, and address some of them again in recorded sessions. This is so much more inefficient than just taking questions during a class and re-teaching a topic on the spot. But please, tell me more about how I am looking for excuses to do less work. [/quote]

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