Cried in frustration over my emails at 7:30 am on a Monday morning about stupid shit that's going to happen in orbit and my inability to do anything about it, and my apparent inability to even organize others to do anything about it. It's going to be great week, I can tell.
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It would be interesting to know how many students drop the course once they find out about the non-AI exams. If none, you've inspired a fine group!
@sundogplanets it has been a hard day, and you've got some hard stuff that you're doing here!
thank you for kind words. Today didn't go *well* exactly, but some small victories.
Big organization that I helped write an FAA comment for won't send it, so a bunch of collaborators are signing it as individuals and sending it anyway.
My college dean is very supportive of making online classes not go well for students who use genAI. So now I have in-person exams added to my online classes that are locked in for next semester, and my classes for next year will likely all be in person.
(I realize there are huge accessibility issues here to adding in-person exams - but I will work with individual students as much as I can to fix those. There's an excellent accommodation centre on campus which I will utilize to its full capacity next semester)
@sundogplanets Cheating is rampant for anything but in-person on paper exams where I work. Even there people try (they always have).
@sundogplanets You've done so much and it's just not right.
But if it helps you get through the day, just think what you'd feel like if you hadn't tried at all.
@sundogplanets You do what you can and that surely is enough. Probably too much if it’s not sustainable in the long run.
@sundogplanets You're the best orbital space organizer I know!
@sundogplanets We are grateful that you are speaking. It's better because you are speaking. YOu are doing something.
We are all looking desperately for things we could do that will *really* change things.
I'm slightly older than igneous rock, a leftover from the 60's been trying to explain what happened to that economy we had and where it could have gone.
I'm still trying to explain how we got here and what could be done. (Just saying)
All you can do is speak your truth, every once in a while someone will understand and those are the ones you are teaching.
Peace
@sundogplanets I know it is of cold comfort, but in solidarity, I was crying in frustration over emails at the same time that were about things right here on earth, that I also feel powerless over.
@trabern Yeah, I focus on the things happening in orbit because that's where my training is, and where I can make the biggest difference (maybe). So many battles to fight.
@sundogplanets Not sure these help, but I thought I'd pass them on:
"You're never wrong to do the right thing." -- Mark Twain
"God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it's hopeless." -- Chester W. Nimitz
Sending you warm fuzzies.
