A foreman oversees his crew in Mettler CA. The workers are weeding a carrot field. It is intense, repetitive work that is very necessary as weeds compete for water, nutrients, and light. Thanks to these workers the carrots will grow straighter, healthier, and larger. #WeFeedYou

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If you don't teach online, it's tempting to see this as someone else's problem. Putting aside the ethical arguments around accessibility, solidarity, etc. - in purely selfish terms online learning helps pay a lot of our salaries. It undergirds the enrollment and budget models for many institutions.

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Online classes are: a) the modality MOST vulnerable to agentic AI, b) the MOST labor-intensive in terms of faculty-to-student ratios, and c) taught by instructors with the MOST precarious employment. We need to keep this in mind when urging instructors to "teach with intentionality"

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There’s what, one article about Thomas Hubbard asking Jeffrey Epstein to fund his conference about rape? You know, Thomas Hubbard, who taught a class called the “Mythology of Rape,” and was awarded $700,000 to retire early after student protests.

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