Academia During a Pandemic: Hunker Down Philosophy 1B
Almost as soon as I released yesterday’s post on things I’m planning to do in order to survive this pandemic we find ourselves in, things got made real at my university: classes have been cancelled entirely until March 30th. This presents some real challenges. For one, it looks like we’re going to lose two full weeks of classes. That’s a lot of classes. That’s a lot of interesting topics and conversations gone. Poofed out of existence by a totally reasonable response to an absolutely bananapants situation. And so here I am contemplating the types of changes I’ll need to make so the class still…functions. What assignments can I drop? What assignments can I move to “do it on your own”? What things must stay so students meet the intended learning outcomes?