A professor at NYU Game 𒁃Center tried to teach a class about streaming on Twitch due to the coronavirus outbreak. It didn’t go well.
Remember ? The guy who made all those oddly sexualized video games like 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Succulent, Stick Shift, and The Tearoom? Well, he's a university professor now. Guess all those funny/artistic/provocative games were good 𒀰for something.
Not only that, but Yang is also a professor at New York University's prestigious Game Center teaching young game students all about the industry. Specifically, Yang is teaching a class on streaming, and because the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:coronavirus is keeping students away from campuses, he decid🔜ed to teach that class via Twitch.
Well🌃, actually, it was his students' idea. Yang thought that it was "going to be a disaster." He was largely ri🃏ght.
The two-hour lecture got started Tuesday night, and the problems of Twitch as a lecture👍 hall immedi🦹ately became apparent. Not everyone can go to New York University campus, but anyone can go to a Twitch stream.
"If you are not a student here at Games Center, and you're just some random person who🌃 is in the chat right now: welcome,” said Yang. “This stream is not for 𒁃you, but I guess you can hang out and disrupt the process of education just like you normally would.”
This was quickly followed by “oh Jesus Christ. Oh no," whi🐠le the chat started posting comments such as "It' weird! It's all weird," "The future is now," and "୧༼ಠ益ಠ༽୨ NOW WE RIOT ୧༼ಠ益ಠ༽୨."
After describing the class, Yang went on to start with discussing the assigned reading. This involved getting students to post their questions in the chat, but𝓀 this presented another problem.
“In practicality. I have very little way of distinguishing bꩲetween rando and student right now in the chat, so in practice, I guess anyone can participate." And they did.
To be fair to the qua𝐆lity of Yang’s stream, the questions posed by the randos/students stayed mostly on task, although there was quite a bit of noise as well. In an interview with , Yang said that the real problem with teaching a class on Twitch was just how one-sided the conversation is.
“It was kind of me just trying to engage them myself and depos🥃it knowledge in their heads. Whereas ideally, the🌺re’s a free exchange of thought and ideas... So I think I predicted the weaknesses of Twitch, and those certainly happened.”
So 𒁃far it sounds like Yang will be streaming again next week, so as bad as this idea is, it’s still better than getting c🔯oronavirus.
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