Technology has allowed for so much in academia. It has changed the way the classroom works in ways that I have explained in previous blog posts: digital papers, immediate communication with teachers through email, and online lectures. It is great what it has allowed for us to do with our education, but I have a personal gripe with these great things too. This technology has also allowed for teachers to give more homework over breaks and holidays.
With digital assignment, a teacher could very easily make an assignment due during the middle of a break, rather than after the break. Right now, I'm writing this blog during my break. Now that there are almost no physical barriers between students and their teachers, the teacher can ask for homework to be due at anytime: breaks, weekends and even holidays. I hope that teachers would at least have the decency to not ask for assignments on holidays, but you'll never know.
I'm not going to make this too long, because I am on break, but I just wanted to let you know that the digital revolution has also created a world where there are no breaks, only periods of time where we are not in a class room.
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