johnlinstrom.bsky.social
poet, educator, editor, convener, worshiper, museum guy, music lover, family person before most else
prof at Centenary College of Louisiana
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Yeah, heard. The fucked-uppery of capitalism remains.
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It is, also, a little confusing whether this is meant to apply to individuals or families. Divide our income by three, and we’re each “broke”—though maybe when you account for the savings of sharing a car, apartment, etc, we’d be more in the very poor category or something.
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I could be misreading the tone—the idea of people making six figures merely “surviving” felt like a stretch to me. The tone from folks I’ve seen share it felt like gallows humor, which I was trying lamely to participate in. It does also clearly communicate what you’re saying.
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(The latter point being related to the desire ideally not to out students who have accommodations to use computers to help them with the tasks of reading and writing.)
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To that end, some personalizable student-facing resource (printable handout, perhaps!) articulating core points here might be generative. I say this as someone who would probably use it! I’ve already been trying to resist these platforms but haven’t been able to articulate confidently to class why.
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This is great. It strikes me that communicating the problems with these platforms to students might do enough to encourage opting out of tech in the seminar room, or at least experimenting with it, that it could be addressed without requiring anyone to so opt (re concerns about outing accommodations
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Though in a humanities seminar, discussion is often the whole class and precisely the thing one would want to take notes during. But I wonder if describing the harms of using these platforms as Matt describes doing would encourage students who can to opt out without imposing a requirement on anyone.
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I posted a similar thing on a couple other platforms and included a long list of folks I thanked for turning me on to one or another book or gifting/loaning them to me, but this platform is bad for that kind of lengthy acknowledgement. Suffice it to say we don’t make these courses by ourselves!
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Huge congrats! Sounds like a solid plan.