Students: If you’re reading this, it’s time to jettison some of the overdue assignments that are weighing us down.
As always, if you are willing to give up some of your free time to individualize the process, you can run triage to get extensions and even exemptions for assignments. This boosts your learning and, therefore, your grade abatement profile. More on this later.
Otherwise, you should jettison pretty much every missing or incomplete assignment and move on. The reason is simple: The plane is too heavy to keep flying, and if we don’t toss some of this stuff overboard, you will crash.
So you jettison the work. Check that the following two criteria have been met:
- You’ve been asked formally to read this post, probably through Google Classroom. It will be an assignment, even if all you must do is mark it read.
- There hasn’t been and won’t be a face-to-face or one-on-one meeting to discuss what missing work to do.
In that case, jettison everything due up to today that you were planning to hand in late. Jettison all of it. Lighten the plane and move on. Find the nearest upcoming deadline. Focus on that.
Note: This includes major writing assignments that you might be re-assigned later. Those will be posted as new work. Everything old goes over the side, unless we meet to work out a way to keep it.
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This post will be updated with a link to more contextual information and student data. For now, let’s leave this bit of text as a reminder to return later for more feedback.