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> this article is really a character study about the author, and not at all about cheating Yeah exactly. Extreme cop energy in the writing those scripts and pu
by giraffe_lady 4y ago
> this article is really a character study about the author, and not at all about cheating
Yeah exactly. Extreme cop energy in the writing those scripts and publicly documenting so much of the chat text verbatim. I started out sympathetic to the author, and still am abstractly, that's a hard spot for a teacher to be in.
But it started to feel like the author expected me to find it... titillating? attractively transgressive? Just a gross secondhand voyeurism type thing I didn't like it at all.
Talk to the students or fail them all and move on. I don't think the impulse to invest so much time and technique in this "investigation" should be encouraged.
- sodality2 4y ago> I don't think the impulse to invest so much time and technique in this "investigation" should be encouraged It resulted in a large amount of the students finally engaging with the material and ultimately caring about the course, though. I don't believe it is healthy to expect that of a professor, but it seemed to work out here.
- butwhywhyoh 4y agoFor that one semester, until the cycle repeats itself. Smarter students in the future won't allow their professor to join the class chats.
- sodality2 4y agoMaybe that's true only because the author posted this, though. Hopefully the course changes that the author made will encourage future students to actually spend time on the course. If that's true, does it point towards a deeper solution with making courses more engaging? Not that students cheating are the professor's fault, of course. Nonetheless...