I think it's an interesting article. I've never heard of Professors Strike Back before I read this.
I think in this day and age with the technology we have, it's easier for people to connect with each other. I know someone mentioned to me a little while ago that one of our teachers from last semester tried to friend her on Facebook and she felt sort of weird about it. Yeah, teachers are trying to show students another side to themselves, but also become friends and in some cases keep in touch. Does this necessarily mean we have to see/read about our teachers doing the same things that we do? No. But for some people its fun to get to know others better through the internet instead of just picking up vibes in personal conversation.
I think for certain things a line might be crossed between the teacher/student relationship if they got too close or talked too often while the teacher is still teaching the student. But its not something to go crazy over. I mean here at Pratt I think we know our teachers pretty well mostly because our class sizes are relatively small. We also have 3 hours worth of class time. So for our college I don't really think it matters. I feel like we get to know our teachers pretty well over the course of the semester. But for colleges with large classes, it definitely helps that their professors might have a website where they can get to know them better.
i actually felt like this initially when i started in college. this entire mean or really serious professor that couldn't possible be human. but then as time went i was thrown with this light that oh my god they are human. which makes the entire teacher student relationship less awkward.
This one of those parents don't understand articles. I feel the who wrote the article is not being very open minded to today's time. People rely on the computer and the technology that come with as a form of communication. Its weird when you ask a person if they have a myspace or did they meet this person on a site like myspace they give a delayed response as if they are ashamed that they have one. People look at it as desperate but some don't have the means to meet people from outside of your surroundings so why not use the internet to let your thoughts explore the world out there. Psychology does not solve everything let people live a little and not over analyze everything.
Some students have a varied relationship to certain teachers because like anything people feel more comfortable with others that they can relate too. This could be for numerous reasons one of the most important factors it depends on the relationship your teacher allows you to have with them. They have been instances were teachers have reached out to me because they are familar with where i came from or they are just doing their job. People get it twisted because teachers have power they are not people. Teaching is just a job they have lives outside of dictation. Some to people surprise teach because they love to teach. And you have the others the others like in Milgram study that over do the power just because they can. We battle with those relationships because we want to be professional and also be human meaning being yourself at all times.
to be honest, i still think it is weird for a professor to have a facebook or myspace profile because i associate those websites with my friends and family. just as much as a professor may want to reveal things about himself on the internet, so to might his/her students. just because someone has a myspace or facebook account doesn't mean that they want the entire world to know about them. i feel like i'm not being clear, but would i really want a professor of mine to know what i did over the weekend, or view pictures of me and my friends and/or family. there is a sense of privacy that i think should be kept in terms of a student-teacher relationship. on the other hand, i do appreciate knowing that a professor of mine has things in common with me. i i guess those things are better expressed in person rather than over the internet. the internet has a sense of liberty, similar to what the guest speaker last week discussed, that speaking to someone in person does not have. i am still unsure if it is appropriate for those freedoms to exist between a student and his/her professor. i do think that the internet can be a good classroom tool, like having syllabi and other information available online, but at this point i think that is as far as it should go.
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I think it's an interesting article. I've never heard of Professors Strike Back before I read this.
I think in this day and age with the technology we have, it's easier for people to connect with each other. I know someone mentioned to me a little while ago that one of our teachers from last semester tried to friend her on Facebook and she felt sort of weird about it. Yeah, teachers are trying to show students another side to themselves, but also become friends and in some cases keep in touch. Does this necessarily mean we have to see/read about our teachers doing the same things that we do? No. But for some people its fun to get to know others better through the internet instead of just picking up vibes in personal conversation.
I think for certain things a line might be crossed between the teacher/student relationship if they got too close or talked too often while the teacher is still teaching the student. But its not something to go crazy over. I mean here at Pratt I think we know our teachers pretty well mostly because our class sizes are relatively small. We also have 3 hours worth of class time. So for our college I don't really think it matters. I feel like we get to know our teachers pretty well over the course of the semester. But for colleges with large classes, it definitely helps that their professors might have a website where they can get to know them better.
i actually felt like this initially when i started in college. this entire mean or really serious professor that couldn't possible be human. but then as time went i was thrown with this light that oh my god they are human. which makes the entire teacher student relationship less awkward.
This one of those parents don't understand articles. I feel the who wrote the article is not being very open minded to today's time. People rely on the computer and the technology that come with as a form of communication. Its weird when you ask a person if they have a myspace or did they meet this person on a site like myspace they give a delayed response as if they are ashamed that they have one. People look at it as desperate but some don't have the means to meet people from outside of your surroundings so why not use the internet to let your thoughts explore the world out there.
Psychology does not solve everything let people live a little and not over analyze everything.
Some students have a varied relationship to certain teachers because like anything people feel more comfortable with others that they can relate too. This could be for numerous reasons one of the most important factors it depends on the relationship your teacher allows you to have with them. They have been instances were teachers have reached out to me because they are familar with where i came from or they are just doing their job. People get it twisted because teachers have power they are not people. Teaching is just a job they have lives outside of dictation. Some to people surprise teach because they love to teach. And you have the others the others like in Milgram study that over do the power just because they can.
We battle with those relationships because we want to be professional and also be human meaning being yourself at all times.
to be honest, i still think it is weird for a professor to have a facebook or myspace profile because i associate those websites with my friends and family. just as much as a professor may want to reveal things about himself on the internet, so to might his/her students. just because someone has a myspace or facebook account doesn't mean that they want the entire world to know about them. i feel like i'm not being clear, but would i really want a professor of mine to know what i did over the weekend, or view pictures of me and my friends and/or family. there is a sense of privacy that i think should be kept in terms of a student-teacher relationship.
on the other hand, i do appreciate knowing that a professor of mine has things in common with me. i i guess those things are better expressed in person rather than over the internet. the internet has a sense of liberty, similar to what the guest speaker last week discussed, that speaking to someone in person does not have. i am still unsure if it is appropriate for those freedoms to exist between a student and his/her professor.
i do think that the internet can be a good classroom tool, like having syllabi and other information available online, but at this point i think that is as far as it should go.
I can't wait to see the final result.
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