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Why Professors Object to Being Recorded
Townhall.com ^ | February 21, 2017 | Dennis Prager

Posted on 02/21/2017 4:19:07 AM PST by Kaslin

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To: Kaslin

They can object all they want. I’m going to record them for the purpose of study. No recording? No pay for course.


21 posted on 02/21/2017 4:44:34 AM PST by BoomerBill (Keep America beautiful - deport a liberal.)
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To: generally

Stable Cox?

Probably just loves horses.


22 posted on 02/21/2017 4:51:08 AM PST by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Kaslin

Ok, so I will date myself with this response, but when I went to college one of the items you brought was your cassette recorder to tape lectures.

When did we stop allowing students to do that?


23 posted on 02/21/2017 4:51:52 AM PST by EBH (As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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To: Kaslin

They object to recording for the same reason that they cover their face when they riot. They don’t want to be identified for what they really are.


24 posted on 02/21/2017 4:52:15 AM PST by meyer (The Constitution says what it says, and it doesn't say what it doesn't say.)
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To: meyer

This is why the adults need to take back the classrooms. A rant about Trump in a human sexuality class (what is that?) is not part of the syllabus, therefore subject to any and all recordings.


25 posted on 02/21/2017 5:01:25 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Nuke Bilderberg from orbit. It''s the only way to be sure.)
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To: meyer

This is why the adults need to take back the classrooms. A rant about Trump in a human sexuality class (what is that?) is not part of the syllabus, therefore subject to any and all recordings.


26 posted on 02/21/2017 5:02:46 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Nuke Bilderberg from orbit. It''s the only way to be sure.)
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To: School of Rational Thought

exactly. One of my first purchases before my first semester was sony recorder.


27 posted on 02/21/2017 5:06:53 AM PST by Maverick68
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To: Kaslin

Point one: recording lectures used to be commonplace and now the professors don’t want their true words heard outside the classroom? Ridiculous! How is competence established?

Point two: GET RID OF TENURE! That was pushed through just so this sort of thing wouldn’t matter in the light of day.


28 posted on 02/21/2017 5:19:11 AM PST by originalbuckeye ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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To: originalbuckeye

I felt as you do, that tenure should be abolished, but I’m not so sure any more. As Glenn Reynolds wrote on Instapundit, in many institutions the only reason there are any conservatives there at all is that they received tenure at a time when the university may have been more open to their point of view, or they managed to conceal their perspective until they received tenure.

I think that I am still opposed to it, and that the schools must reform from the top down, but there is another point of view.


29 posted on 02/21/2017 5:32:05 AM PST by Piranha (Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have - Saul Alinsky)
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To: originalbuckeye

Mike Adams as well is probably only a professor because he is tenured.

Better to get rid of all of the administrators whose positions have been created over recent decades.


30 posted on 02/21/2017 5:34:00 AM PST by Piranha (Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have - Saul Alinsky)
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To: Kaslin

Simple way to fix this problem. If a college wants federal money (including student loans) they have to allow unrestricted recordings of classroom lectures.

I doubt we get there, but if we’re going to lend what is now 1.2 Trillion dollars to these Snowflakes to go to college, we should start applying our own strings, for once.


31 posted on 02/21/2017 5:34:47 AM PST by BobL (In Honor of the NeverTrumpers, I declare myself as FR's first 'Imitation NeverTrumper')
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Why Professors Object to Being Recorded

I teach 90% of my classes online; everything I say, in text or by voice, is recorded. There are times when I wince at something I wrote or said earlier, wishing I had presented it differently, but I stand for what I stand for, which is the veracity and relevance of the course material, and I would be OK with anyone reading or hearing it. A professor who doesn't want to be recorded in what is supposed to be the ultimate rendition of the public square, the college campus, doesn't deserve to be a professor.

32 posted on 02/21/2017 5:48:08 AM PST by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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In the 1980s and 1990s, recording lectures was a common form of studying, because taking notes can cause one to miss some of the lecture, and I found that reviewing my notes WHILE listening to the lecture later on made for far better retention of information, especially when the course covered highly detailed information.

At least 1/2 of the students in my classes would record the lectures.

But given what the “instructors” are spewing these days, I can understand why they wouldn’t want it to get out.

Mark


33 posted on 02/21/2017 5:49:37 AM PST by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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To: DOC44
Back in the 70s many of my college students recorded my lectures. My lecture lab table often had several recorders on it.

That reminds me of a scene from the movie, "Real Genius," where at the beginning of the semester, there is a class full of people with the professor, later there are some and then more and more recorders, and finally there's a big reel to reel recorder giving the lecture, while every student desk has a tape recorder on it, and not a single person in the class room.

Mark

34 posted on 02/21/2017 5:53:50 AM PST by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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To: Kaslin
This is typical of the liberal's "defense by attack" MO.

Hillary and the DNC has some emails released that are embarrassing (to say the least). The defense is to ignore the content of the emails and attack the fact and method whereby they were released (hacking).

This ding bat has her rant publicized and the defense is to ignore the content and inappropriateness of her rant, and attack the poor schmuck who recorded and made it public.

35 posted on 02/21/2017 5:59:39 AM PST by grobdriver (Where is Wilson Blair when you need him?)
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To: Kaslin

Students should just get permission up front to record the lectures. The professor could not deny permission to record because students with auditory impairments, auditory processing disorders, ADHD, autism, etc. would need an audio recording as a “reasonable accommodation” under the Americans with Disabilities Act.


36 posted on 02/21/2017 6:29:43 AM PST by Sisku Hanne (All you have to do is the next right thing.)
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To: Kaslin

The professor is “performing” in a publicly owned facility for the benefit of the public, albeit a select group—students.

The instructor needs to get off her high horse.


37 posted on 02/21/2017 6:43:07 AM PST by ptsal
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...or, why pay money to go to college if all the lectures are available for free on the web?

The students are buying the package, which is deceptively labeled "knowledge". They would probably not be so inclined to spend good money on the product if they could see inside the package beforehand.

As for being free on the web, good instruction is already out there, just elsewhere.

38 posted on 02/21/2017 8:18:00 AM PST by thulldud
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To: Piranha
Mike Adams as well is probably only a professor because he is tenured.

And when he got tenure, he was a leftist.

Now that he's a conservative Christian, as much as the lefties would like to, they can't get rid of him.

Even so, he has said tenure should be abolished.

39 posted on 02/21/2017 8:22:24 AM PST by thulldud
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To: Kaslin

Interesting. I always wondered about that.


40 posted on 02/21/2017 8:26:17 AM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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