tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29783395.post4300563255398696165..comments2023-10-21T02:43:05.419+11:00Comments on Ariane's little world: Open letter to the convenors of my courseArianehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17977679825245376111noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29783395.post-42539383296157822042011-08-16T09:10:06.671+10:002011-08-16T09:10:06.671+10:00@Neil: I decided against knitting through yesterda...@Neil: I decided against knitting through yesterday's lecture too. And the 8am prac briefing was nothing short of farcical. I have to visit my school this morning, so that was never going to happen.<br /><br />@G: Some of our lectures are presented as compulsory - I don't know whether it's enforced, as I've gone to the ones that marked rolls. However, I've spent a good deal of my time in those playing games on my iPhone. I can't even begin to imagine what makes anyone think compulsory lectures make any sense. It's hardly any kind of assessment, I certainly attended plenty without listening to a word. <br /><br />Rude behaviour in non-compulsory lectures (as was the case in the one I'm referring to here) is even more obnoxious. I feel no guilt at all in knitting in lectures I am forced to attend. And no, this wasn't an Indigenous lecture, and I haven't discussed what it was, because it doesn't really matter. It was neither the convenor's nor the guest speakers' fault that we'd all seen this material before. The situation is caused by the overall course management, not this individual subject. <br /><br />And no, no-one said anything about the behaviour at the time, I think they quite reasonably expected that people would control themselves - especially given that this lecture wasn't compulsory. If you don't want to be there - leave!Arianehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17977679825245376111noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29783395.post-70527711234257843682011-08-16T01:08:30.188+10:002011-08-16T01:08:30.188+10:00Last semester one student rocked up to a workshop ...Last semester one student rocked up to a workshop thirty minutes late carrying a coffee then throughout the class they would interrupt the lecturer by talking. I would have sent them packing as they walked in with the coffee.<br /><br />The positive reinforcement by some lecturers tends to set the bar for repeated poor behaviour.<br /><br />It is not just one lecturer who perpetuates this poor brhaviour and it is not just a handful of students; I would say that it is at least half the class in a given workshop who consistently conduct their own conversations while the lecturer is talking.<br /><br />The irony is that with all the repetitious references to behaviour management, it is seldom modelled.<br /><br />I witnessed one of the most inspiring and informative male lecturers become so rocked by the behaviour in our workshop he became ineffective - and he allowed it to happen for the entire semester.<br /><br />I guarantee that if a lecturer threatened to fail a student for a given subject because of their behaviour it would change in an instant.<br /><br />BTW the attendance of lectures has never been compulsory for any subject, and workshops have always been 80% attendance to pass.<br />They may expect you to attend lectures, but they have never enforced it as they do in workshops.<br /><br />Is it not better that those students who do not want to be there, just dont attend? <br /><br />I would personally like to watch a vodcast of the lecture at my own leisure and learning pace.<br /><br />May I ask if the students were reprimanded for their behaviour in front of the guest speaker?<br /><br />Would this have been an Indigenous lecture?<br /><br />I always miss all the good shit by not attending haha, but on the upside I miss all the crap too.<br /><br />(unedited reply) :)BudGSmugglerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01070626417386041025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29783395.post-65591393722210109012011-08-15T15:21:58.103+10:002011-08-15T15:21:58.103+10:00Good points, hope to see you at both the 8am prac ...Good points, hope to see you at both the 8am prac briefing as well as the 7-9pm tutorial tomorrow.<br />Oh yes - I am missing the 1 hour of scheduled activities today:)Neilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12764112287163366463noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29783395.post-87919152760311594612011-08-14T22:25:38.687+10:002011-08-14T22:25:38.687+10:00Hi Ariane,
Great post. The management of the cours...Hi Ariane,<br />Great post. The management of the course has been very hard to interpret. Look forward to seeing you in lectures (if not online or twitter). Cheers, Yvette (Posh)Miss Poshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09704918773734821167noreply@blogger.com