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I'm going to just drop the rest of this, because you can't seem to understand that I'm not talking about anything other than your reaction to a single puff piece.
You may want to talk about some greater ghost of lost ethics, but look at the history of political discourse in America and tell me where in the past 200 years things were different. There's 2 sides, roughly evenly divided and they're both full of overreacting howler monkeys.
 Originally Posted by BananaStand
Who are you trying to convince here? Me? or you?
Lol. You're the one who keeps insisting I'm a lecturing professor. I'm not. I'm the Physics Demonstration Technician.
I put physical demonstrations in the classroom, tell the faculty lecturer how to operate it and I walk away.
The interactions I have with students are when they approach me after a lecture and ask me to clarify the demonstration.
Originally Posted by BananaStand
Your whole job is an appeal to authority.
No. My job is to put physical apparatus in the classroom so that the students can make their own observations for the exact reason that otherwise the lecture is nothing but an appeal to authority. The presence of the demonstrations gives them their own observations, so that they don't have to trust anyone but themselves.
Originally Posted by BananaStand
Do you stand at the front of the class?
As they file into and out of the lecture hall, yes, I am standing behind the demos, ready to answer questions or explain the setup. If it's after their lecture, I invite them to play with the demo themselves.
Originally Posted by BananaStand
Do your students call you "Mr./Prof. Monkey"?
No, they call me Sean.
If they try to call me Mr. or Dr., I make a lame joke that I'm scared that my dad has snuck up behind me.
Besides, I'm not Dr. anything, so just Sean is best.
Originally Posted by BananaStand
Do the students know that it will be YOU evaluating their performance and determining their level of success in class?
Quite the opposite. They know that I have literally nothing to do with their grade in the course.
Originally Posted by BananaStand
And what if you happen to misrepresent the current understanding in physics? What's the accountability there?
Then I apologize and correct myself. This is science. There's always room to say "oops."
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