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What it's like to teach on Discord

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Re: What it's like to teach on Discord

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Behavior and professionalism should be a class day 1 in any university. Students do not know what that is, and therefore they don't understand how to conduct themselves on this discord. They think it's like text messaging - a place to complain and talk drama - but it's not. Sadly universities are wholey occupied in politically aligning themselves blue with focusing on progressive topics before the basics. People are…

> Sadly universities are wholey occupied in politically aligning themselves blue with focusing on progressive topics before the basics.

Actually, we badly need a class dedicated to the software engineer’s role in perpetuating racist, sexist, and classist systems. I’ve seen nothing of the sort at three different schools. You could even throw in a lecture on professionalism in the workplace!

Re: What it's like to teach on Discord

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Behavior and professionalism should be a class day 1 in any university. Students do not know what that is, and therefore they don't understand how to conduct themselves on this discord. They think it's like text messaging - a place to complain and talk drama - but it's not. Sadly universities are wholey occupied in politically aligning themselves blue with focusing on progressive topics before the basics. People are…

> Sadly universities are wholey occupied in politically aligning themselves blue with focusing on progressive topics before the basics. this is not an educated opinion in any way. go live overseas, in a 1st world nation, by yourself, for any amount of time greater than a year, learn the the basics of the politics of that country, then come back to the US, go to college here, and tell anyone honestly that colleges in…

Where overseas exactly? I don't recall any international students having to take classes on sensitivity to other cultures, their privilege, and how everything has to be non offensive and accepting. Where disagreement is viewed as hostile.

Day 1 as a uni student that's what U.S. universities continually go over for a whole semester. It's driven to the point of propaganda, and is clearly messaging that is coming from political sources, not academic ones.

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