tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30766504.post873287880766177278..comments2024-01-15T03:36:11.777-05:00Comments on Teaching Game Design: Love is in the air...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30766504.post-6822554489231167072008-05-07T16:57:00.000-04:002008-05-07T16:57:00.000-04:00It's a generational thing, Ian. Baby Boomers ex...It's a generational thing, Ian. Baby Boomers expected standoffishness (now there's a word!). Gen Xers were loners. Millennials are gregarious, and expect authority figures to be friendly if not actually friends (their parents, for example). Millennials have parents who, by and large, actually wanted children, rather than having little practical way to avoid having them. <BR/><BR/>So the conventional wisdom now is "make friends with your students" (up to a point), "take a student to lunch". As long as you can avoid an appearance of favoritism.<BR/><BR/>I am old enough to be grandfather of the younger students, so it can be a bit harder for me to get students to see me as a person. <BR/><BR/>I figure, if I happen to tease a female student and she whacks me one without thinking (the way she might a lad her own age, not trying to hurt), then I'm doing something right!Lewis Pulsipherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11998403221823705918noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30766504.post-75333355292974267362008-03-29T04:32:00.000-04:002008-03-29T04:32:00.000-04:00That was very touching, and somehow made all the m...That was very touching, and somehow made all the more so by the Portal reference.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30766504.post-56203428375595441862008-03-21T19:55:00.000-04:002008-03-21T19:55:00.000-04:00Unfortunately, most of our friends, being people i...Unfortunately, most of our friends, being people in our class, i.e. the people you would probably know, couldn't make it. The perils of having a wedding at the outset of finals week.<BR/><BR/>P.S. I hope my dad wasn't too weird for you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com