Comment by readthenotes1
19 days ago
"They can’t sit in a seat for 50 minutes. "
probably because they're bored. Giving a live lecture is the most disdainful form of teaching, using the slowest and most unbalanced way of passing info.
Video your lecture so that the students can watch it at 1.5x speed and do exercises during the class time so that the students are engaged if they decide to show up (which they are more likely to do if they don't have to sit through your live presentation at 1.0x speed).
They'll adjust.
No, they won't adjust.
The students won't watch the recorded videos or do the readings. That's why we have to lecture live.
Then even if we get great students that will do the readings and watch the videos so we can do a flipped classroom; the students will complain that they had to teach themselves and tank the student evaluation scores compared to the lecture version.
Students expect lectures and dislike more active forms of learning even if they learn more. This is not their fault as it's what they've been trained to expect from K-12.
I had a lecture, where my professor would read from PowerPoint slides - that commonly contained 50 lines of text.
He was surprised nobody wanted to attend his lectures.
EDIT: fixed a lot of typos...