Where is the "Words that Student's Don't Know" Thread?

[Aster]

I can't find it here. But maybe I'm using the search function wrong. I get nothing out of the search function.

[namazu]

I don't think it has made the transition to the new fora yet -- you could (re-)start it!

Here was the old thread: https://www.chronicle.com/forums/index.php/topic,55222.0.html

[mamselle]

To get this search engine to work you have to be in the main board before searching.

Otherwise it only searches the board you currently then have open.

(But it doesn't tell you that.)

But now we want to know!

What word were you going to post??!!

M.

[present_mirth]

How about "names that students don't know"? I'll offer up the first one: Plato.

At least some of the other students in the class jumped in right away and identified him as a philosopher. I think I might have been overcome by despair if they hadn't.

[Aster]

Wait, how do you move it from the old CHE forums to over here?

I need like a checklist of technical steps.

Or maybe someone who knows what they're doing could do it, using the last post as a linkage.

[namazu]

Wait, how do you move it from the old CHE forums to over here?

I need like a checklist of technical steps.

Or maybe someone who knows what they're doing could do it, using the last post as a linkage.

There isn't a way to do this automatically. But you can start a new thread and quote the OP (or a selection of posts) from the old thread to get things going/set the tone, if you wish.  Or just start fresh.

[Parasaurolophus]

How about "names that students don't know"? I'll offer up the first one: Plato.

At least some of the other students in the class jumped in right away and identified him as a philosopher. I think I might have been overcome by despair if they hadn't.

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Ah, but how did you pronounce it? Maybe they were expecting the Greek (or, conversely, the English) pronunciation.

What really gets me is the persistent misgendering of scholars. Even after I've shown them pictures, the scholar's first name, repeatedly referred to her with female pronouns, and even if all that information is in the prompt. God forbid the article should be by a woman.

[present_mirth]

How about "names that students don't know"? I'll offer up the first one: Plato.

At least some of the other students in the class jumped in right away and identified him as a philosopher. I think I might have been overcome by despair if they hadn't.

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Ah, but how did you pronounce it? Maybe they were expecting the Greek (or, conversely, the English) pronounciation.

I didn't. He was mentioned in the readings. And I would be very, very shocked if any of our students were expecting the Greek pronunciation!

[apl68]

How about "names that students don't know"? I'll offer up the first one: Plato.

At least some of the other students in the class jumped in right away and identified him as a philosopher. I think I might have been overcome by despair if they hadn't.

Today's undergrads probably don't even know that our solar system used to have a ninth planet named after him.

[mamselle]

Ha!

Well done.

(I assume you're spoofing on Pluto, god of the underworld)...


M.

[Aster]

Okay. I made a new starter thread. Perhaps some of the stuff that people added here can be moved over. Or not. But I miss this discussion topic.

[Myword]

Why would they know of Plato or any other philosopher? It's not taught in high school. They would not know he was from Greece. They might not know where Greece is.

When I began teaching, like many others, I assumed that beginning college students had a larger vocabulary and were quick intelligent learners. Wrong. It's easy to criticize but how smart were you when you entered college? I used to think that space and time referred to science fiction. And are footnotes found on your foot?
This academic ignorance extends to mature adults who have professional jobs. I taught them.
Looking back, I recall a professor who always spoke very unclearly of realms, levels and causal control. I had no idea what he meant and still don't. But that's what I remember from his classes now!

[craftyprof]

How about "names that students don't know"? I'll offer up the first one: Plato.

If it is any consolation, I think the second name they don't know is mine.  (There are multiple faculty with the same surname at my institution - apparently we are all one interchangeable super-professor)

And just to give you heart palpitations... I've seen Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure enough that my inner monologue refers to his teacher as "So-crates" as reliably as anything.

[Parasaurolophus]

And just to give you heart palpitations... I've seen Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure enough that my inner monologue refers to his teacher as "So-crates" as reliably as anything.

Yup!

I'm a philosopher, though, and my colleagues give me funny looks when I say So-crates.