The Chronicle of Higher Education
January 5th, 2015
In 2009, anyone who searched my name on
the web would first encounter the opinions of a disgruntled Midwestern
undergraduate who lambasted me for being an unfair, unprofessional, and
essentially ignorant professor.
Oddly enough, the student was angry because I had begun incorporating
Twitter into the classroom. I was among the early advocates of using
the social-media site in teaching, especially in large lecture-based
courses. While many of the 120 students in my introductory film course
embraced the Twitter assignments I devised, a handful revolted,
including this particular student. He took to the Internet to express
his belief that social media had no place in the college classroom, and
any professor who thought otherwise was not only oblivious to Twitter’s
intent (It’s for socializing, not learning!), but also graded her
students unreasonably. In his diatribe, he called out my name, school
affiliation, and the classes I taught.
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