Higher Education Teaching and Learning

For the purposes of this post, I define “cop shit” as “any pedagogical technique or technology that presumes an adversarial relationship between students and teachers.” Here are some examples:

-ed-tech that tracks our students’ every move
-plagiarism detection software
-militant tardy or absence policies, particularly ones that involve -embarassing our students, e.g. locking them out of the classroom after class has begun
-assignments that require copying out honor code statements
-“rigor,” “grit,” and “discipline”
-any interface with actual cops, such as reporting students’ immigration status to ICE and calling cops on students sitting in classrooms.