Young Media Weekend is one week from tomorrow! BE THERE.
We will be wearing these at #YMW. We are excited.
Lil B spoke at NYU last night. We have great photos, video, audio over here.
Gallatin Arts Festival is going on right now, and there’s some performances we’re looking forward to.
First up is Golden Hour, by gallatina Hannah Daly and Tisch film kid Thurmon Green. It will “interrogate the history of the urban space, peeling apart social and cultural nuances of the development of the city and it’s spectacular visual representation.” Sounds about right.
The performance is tomorrow in Kimmel at 11 am, 12 pm and 1 pm, and it’s free, but you’ll need tickets.
See you there.
Albert’s Inferno: Why You Won’t Escape Registration Purgatory Anytime Soon
The fact that NYU, with over fifty-thousand students and employees, relies on such an unusable and unpopular tool is both annoying and embarrassing. But the administration are not complete luddites–they gave us NYU GMail, and NYU GCal! There must be a reason, then, that every semester we are made to endure the gauntlet that is registering on Albert. There must be.
We looked into it. Looks bleak.
so does NYU have a GSA
or is the other name for its GSA just “the student body”
EVERY SINGLE ONE OF US IS GAY.
The question in this post is whether professors should be responsible for a) reporting students who cheat, b) make their classes more “cheat-proof,” or c) make students not want to cheat.
I think the latter option is unrealistic. And I think making classes “cheat-proof” is easier than NYU Local makes it sound. In the Linguistics Department, we’re encouraged to work together, and as long as we indicate who we’ve worked with and put ideas into our own words, cheating is not an issue.
In Stern, however, there’s this fierce sense of competition— only a certain number of students are going to get that A— that I think breeds academic dishonesty. Am I saying that business school should be less competitive? Not necessarily. But I think giving every student the same multiple choice test and then saying only 5 of them can get an A is going to create some problems. I think there are other ways to challenge and evaluate students that are not as conducive to cheating. And I think, as educators, our professors should be innovative and purposeful in the way they evaluate our learning.
The end of the blog post quotes and NYU official who says, “Smart students who are determined to cheat will outsmart faculty.” That might be true. Even so, rethinking the way we teach and learn at NYU is only going to benefit all parties involved.
This is a photo taken by someone in the half of my class that is in Abu Dhabi. The pictures on the screen are live video feeds of my half of the class in New York (Can you find me? I’m on the left screen and my hair is in a high bun) and we had similar screens in our room. The professor in NY and the one in AD take turns lecturing each week. Cool right?
THE GLOBAL UNIVERSITY ETC.
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