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I am exhausted, and responding to a thread right before going to bed (I'm 3 hours past my bed time) is risky as people in Australia and Europe are going to respond to this while I am fast asleep, but I think this is worth discussing.
BOTH students AND faculty are EXHAUSTED NOW.
BOTH students AND faculty are EXHAUSTED NOW.
I KNEW from my experience teaching summer online that this was going to be a rough Fall semester. I was NOT prepared for how difficult it became.
It's hard for faculty, for students, AND for parents and families of students AND faculty.
This is HARD. http://www.raulpacheco.org/2020/10/reconsidering-the-zoom-university-synchronic-asynchronic-and-online-teaching-and-learning/
It's hard for faculty, for students, AND for parents and families of students AND faculty.
This is HARD. http://www.raulpacheco.org/2020/10/reconsidering-the-zoom-university-synchronic-asynchronic-and-online-teaching-and-learning/
I love teaching, and under normal circumstances, I'm very good at it. But I also KNEW this was going to be hard. This semester I decided to reduce reading workload, and be even more pragmatic than I used to be in my courses. I made them WAY more applied. http://www.raulpacheco.org/2020/10/teaching-and-pedagogy-in-the-zoom-covid19-pandemic-times-reducing-reading-workload-and-making-my-courses-more-practical-and-pragmatic/
I have spent the better part of 2020 emphasizing the need for radical empathy across students, families, staff, faculty, teachers, etc. (remember my Twitter thread on rigor and workload during a global pandemic?) Let me repeat this: IT'S HARD ON ALL OF US. https://twitter.com/raulpacheco/status/1249152275114856449
What this Zoomester and the Zoom University have shown ME (you may come to a different conclusion) is that the pandemic is revealing and exacerbating disparities and inequalities.
We can't teach "to a standard". There is no standard. This is a unique, unprecedented phenomenon.
We can't teach "to a standard". There is no standard. This is a unique, unprecedented phenomenon.
All I can say is that we need maximum empathy and humanity and kindness and I know it's hard to be empathetic when you're running out of gas yourself.
We need better governments, better politicians, better public administrators.
I don't know if they're coming any time soon.
We need better governments, better politicians, better public administrators.
I don't know if they're coming any time soon.
I stand in solidarity with you all, students, faculty, families, staff.
That's all I have.
Good night.
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That's all I have.
Good night.
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