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John Regehr
John Regehr
@regehr@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 11 hours ago

something I've been thinking about is how, when I teach a class, I tell the TAs to never, ever touch the keyboard when they're helping a student with an assignment. not even once! because as soon as someone else is driving, it becomes real easy for the student to stop thinking and just let things happen.

kind of like what happens when we use a coding assistant.

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Florian 'floe' Echtler
Florian 'floe' Echtler
@floe@hci.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 hours ago

@regehr didn't get a TA this semester 😭 however, that just means it's good advice for myself 😁👍

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Michael Engel
Michael Engel
@me_@sueden.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 hours ago

@floe @regehr Yikes, are there not enough students interested in working as a TA or is it a funding problem?

I was only able to find 2(.5) TAs for my course in the summer semester (intro to computer architecture and OS with ~150 students) but I have funds for four.

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John Regehr
John Regehr
@regehr@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 46 minutes ago

@me_ @floe are these only grad TAs or can you hire undergrads too? at my place it's the undergrad TAs who often do the best job

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Florian 'floe' Echtler
Florian 'floe' Echtler
@floe@hci.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 31 minutes ago

@me_ @regehr It's also undergrads, and yes, they generally do a very good job as well 👍

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Florian 'floe' Echtler
Florian 'floe' Echtler
@floe@hci.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 hours ago

@me_ @regehr Indirectly, a funding problem - at AAU, you automatically get funding for a TA when your course has > 50 registered students, but mine has 48. 😑 And my new grant only starts in April, so I just happened to fall into a stupid little funding gap. 🤷

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Michael Engel
Michael Engel
@me_@sueden.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 hours ago

@floe @regehr Ah, that's unfortunate...

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malte
malte
@malte@anticapitalist.party replied  ·  activity timestamp 10 hours ago

@regehr other people's keyboards are lava ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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