Thread by @karenraycosta

recently a lot of educators have been saying to me they've done everything they can to create awesome online learning spaces, and still students aren't engaging...and I say, our students are dealing with other challenges outside of our classes...

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#academicchatter

https://twitter.com/NPR/status/1306382441985306624

i guess i have more to say on this...i think we have to be careful that our desire to engage students doesn't make it about US, you know?

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#academicchatter

rely on sound pedagogy and create cultures of care, be a student yourself, outreach regularly, be kind. students might still choose not to engage in the ways we want them to. we are not the center of their universe.

I guess maybe I'm saying that checking our egos at the door, imo, is a big part of great teaching?

I get it. It feels really good when they engage the way we want and crappy when they don't. But it's not our students' job to make us feel good about ourselves?

Anyway, the government wants to burn people with heat rays which I would say is a pretty challenging distraction for most humans. I don't know anyone who isn't experiencing crushing exec function dysfunction right now.