{"id":61366,"date":"2022-05-02T01:00:32","date_gmt":"2022-05-02T05:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=61366"},"modified":"2024-01-30T14:12:30","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T19:12:30","slug":"qotd-online-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2022\/05\/02\/qotd-online-education\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Online education"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; padding: 0px 15px 10px 0px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>The great online-ening of the past year has shown just how <em>useless<\/em> so much of the modern &#8220;economy&#8221; is. To take just the most obvious example, ask any teacher how important face-to-face instruction is. If you&#8217;d asked them before March, you&#8217;d be forgiven for thinking that teaching is some kind of super-skilled, rocket scientist-level job that only years of training and fanatical, monk-like dedication can prepare you for. Post-COVID, and &#8220;education&#8221; means &#8220;log in, look at the Powerpoint, and answer the multiple choice quiz &#8230; you know, whenever you feel like it. Or don&#8217;t, it&#8217;s all good, because following schedules and completing assignments is racist.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s just <em>college<\/em>, which now more than ever is exactly what the sententious goobers on the faculty always said it was: A professional football team with a few classrooms attached. They&#8217;re memory-holed now, no doubt, but I recall a time over the summer when a few studies on the impact of online &#8220;learning&#8221; came out. They were worse than even I expected, and I&#8217;m cynical enough to give Diogenes wood. Some huge fraction of kids never even bothered logging on. At all. And, of course, they were promoted to the next grade &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Severian, <!--<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rottenchestnuts.com\/more-scattered-thoughts\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">-->&#8220;More Scattered Thoughts&#8221;, <em>Rotten Chestnuts<\/em>, 2020-10-13.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The great online-ening of the past year has shown just how useless so much of the modern &#8220;economy&#8221; is. To take just the most obvious example, ask any teacher how important face-to-face instruction is. If you&#8217;d asked them before March, you&#8217;d be forgiven for thinking that teaching is some kind of super-skilled, rocket scientist-level job [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,41,13],"tags":[1202,58,99,1462,764,1363],"class_list":["post-61366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-epidemic","tag-internet","tag-racism","tag-severian","tag-university","tag-wuhancoronavirus"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-fXM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61366"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87050,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61366\/revisions\/87050"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}