seetroublecoming: fuckyeahdiomedes:asearchforg-d:academicssay: Meanwhile on Twitter | tw
seetroublecoming: fuckyeahdiomedes: asearchforg-d: academicssay: Meanwhile on Twitter | https://twitter.com/mckellogs/status/811339472205910016 I would encourage this. that’s fucking briliant As a TA in law school I organized a wiki for students to do this so not everyone had to take notes everyday but everyone would have the notes of at least three students for every class. This freed up the 30+ other students to pay attention, ask questions and get more involved without risking not having materials to study at exam time. Every student was only required to take notes for 3 out of 25 class sessions all semester. So if you were having a bad day, or sick, or couldn’t make it to class for any other reason, you would have 3 students’ notes to review without even having to ask for them. (I also set up video recording of every class so students could rewatch them if they needed to). Most students loved the wiki after they realized that it was less work and they could rely on it to make their life easier. But a few students hated it, aggressively hated it. They complained endlessly that they didn’t think it was right that other people would benefit from their work and they refused to contribute their notes on days they were assigned. Even though they had the benefit of everyone else’s notes for 22 of the classes, they could not stand the idea of other people benefiting from their notes for 3 classes. They said it wasn’t fair because it meant “lazy” people got a free ride on their work. Remember, this was an upper-level course, at a law school that cost over a $100k to attend. Most students studied a lot and several were already working difficult part-time jobs that they hoped would become full-time positions when they passed the bar. I wish I could say that the students that didn’t want to work together and contribute to the wiki for everyone’s benefit failed the course or ultimately got worse jobs than the other students, but they didn’t. They did just as well as everyone else more or less. But those people were assholes and working with them was a daily lesson in the selfishness and stupidity of some people. Those assholes serve as a reminder to me that some people will refuse to do a thing just because it benefits others. Even if it’s no more work or trouble for them, they will aggressively push back against assisting other people, and even against assisting everyone, because helping everyone means helping more than just themselves. -- source link