apparently it counts as negative for participation if i look at my phone during class. ok participation is 20% of the grade which i will get 0 marks then, fuck that i don't really care mate
@mimtschan augh that's such bs hon, I'm sorry.
good teachers should know better. my teaching role model told a story about a student he had who would knit during class.
whenever he got to something interesting, the knitting would slow and she would look up and listen. then he would get back to boring stuff and she would focus on her knitting again.
he said he really appreciated it, like she was an orchestra conductor. I hope you find a teacher that good someday.
@morae aww. well i had some teachers at school who let me do that (funnily enough, i also had a knitting phase once) but a lot of them never understood why i didn't participate and tried again and again to kind of make me. at uni that's not so much of a thing but there's still that notion that participation should be part of class. i just really dislike that and i always feel a bit left out :<
@morae yeah, that too D: but i even feel IF teachers try to take into consideration that people learn in different ways, the school system itself is just too limited, esp in its ways to evaluate ppl :///
(sorry, I'm really anti-school tbh and feel like it honestly taught me next to nothing 🙈 but i always surcharge teachers who try and make the best of it and are actually interested in teaching and not just... authority)
what are you going to teach? :3
@mimtschan I am in a CS PhD program and I hope to be research/teaching faculty some day! My current area of research is molecular programming but I also like computer architecture and programming languages :333
@morae that's so cool!! I'm like on the entire opposite of computer science because i wanna have as little to do with research as possible 😄 (like, personally. because i don't want to do it)
what is molecular programming actually? 🤔
@mimtschan research isn't fun for everyone and that's ok!
molecular programming is concerned with performing computation at the molecular level. in my case I study using synthetic DNA as a medium for storage and computation! it's uh, kind of trippy.
@morae whoa that sounds hella cool though tbh
@mimtschan I hear ya. I hope to be a teacher one day and like, I will never have a participation score.
I dunno, maybe teachers need a "first do no harm" like doctors -- "first assume good faith"? Assume everyone is trying to learn.