Chuck Pearson (he/him/etc.)
@shorterpearson.bsky.social
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Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Assistant Dean of Math and Science at Tusculum University. All sorts of other nerdy things.
Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Assistant Dean of Math and Science at Tusculum University. All sorts of other nerdy things.
![To Pearson and many other educators, learning how to problem solve is one of the most valuable benefits of a college education. “We teach problem-solving in a more structured form at the undergraduate level so that students can deal with the unstructured problems they’re going to encounter in research and in the workforce,” Pearson says.
He’s begun emphasizing this idea to his students. “You have to make a decision as a student that the process of learning is worth putting aside [generative AI] initially,” he says.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:yadufqujydkgilkfmlh6ua56/bafkreiasnqetxiu67r47rz6inloalnm6vckde5nspgguarcjgixdmwb2tq)
!["...[O]ne reason that many ed tech solutions are so complex and bandwidth hungry is that faculty members simply want to recreate online what they do in the classroom. What do you really need? Instead of thinking that online learning is just a transfer, they have to adapt their practices, their pedagogies, their expectations, and, for some, their egos. No longer the sole arbiters of engagement, faculty members must take a step back and enable their students to be their own arbiters of engagement. It would also require faculty to re-evaluate the perceived need to monitor their students via technology. Even as a thought experiment for faculty members, to ask 'if you had minimal digital tools, what would your course look like?' can be a meaningful and powerful way to get them to think about online course design differently." - Bessette, "Digital redlining, minimal computing, and equity", in Digital Critical Pedagogy in Higher Education](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:yadufqujydkgilkfmlh6ua56/bafkreich3ctygi7j4gtc2aow6f5dzvo26kzt4h6yji4cb7tfaf2eif2jzy)
