 I have a confession to make. In my high school, college, and law school years, I cut a bunch of classes in order to play games. So I can sympathize if you're a student during lockdown, attending online class, and thinking, why can't I be gaming right now? I mean, come on, it's online class, you're already at your computer, no one can see what you're doing. You can log attendance and play at the same time. It's a victimless crime. Except it's not when it goes public as it did with a viral video around two years ago when a Lasal student forgot to turn off his microphone while he was attending online class and playing Warzone at the same time. Come on, patch, get that 30. Save me, yo. This is a story of get that 30, bro, and the fallout from that. If you haven't seen it yet, post this podcast, Google it, then come back. I have to admit, it's pretty funny. Come on, get that 30. Get that 30, bro. Right, bro. And you're not gonna lie, watching the prof reminded me a little bit of C3PO from Star Wars. You know, a little prissy, but proper and dignified. I've been teaching for 33 years now as a part-time faculty member of the Department of Decision, Science, and Innovation Department under the Ramon Vidal Rosario College of Business. And my areas of expertise include family business management, fashion entrepreneurship, and human resource management. And the professor in question just seems a little lost with this online thing, with this gaming thing. What is going on? Ang pastos, gravity. Pika, go ka. Pasi. Tika, tika, tika, tika. Ayaw ko sa ang immute. Gusto ko ma-record na sa labo. Now, I'm a professor also. I used to teach English and now I teach marketing at the college level, at a well-known university. But I'm also a lifelong gamer. So it's easy for me to sympathize with the student. Unlike the professor who has no context, not that I guess that would make it any better. But certainly it just adds to the confusion. He isn't a gamer and he has no interest in that world. The game that your particular student was playing, I think it's a shooter. It's Call of Duty. Do you play any computer games like in your spare time? Oh my God. Oh my God. Not a gamer. Absolutely not. I did not even know. Of course, I kind of heard about the game at the time. But I didn't know exactly what it was. When the viral video came out and then apparently, I think that one of the iconic lines there is get that 30 bro. So it's something in game. Did you ever, or did somebody tell you actually what he's so laser focused on today's exclusion of everything else, including your class, is this like an item in the game or like 30 kills or something. Did it ever peak your interest na? Ano ba tong get that 30? Bakit ba sobrang obsessed si student dito? Unfortunately, I didn't really care. Of course, I had to ask what that phrase was, what that sentence was all about. But after that, after knowing what it was, I didn't really care. My only focus was the humiliation I felt, the invasion of my privacy, and how long this thing will last. And it's a cliche, but in this short, but brutal viral video, you can really see a clash of different worlds, different generations, and how tech has made everything topsy-turvy. This is an entirely new generation of young adults whose career goals are vastly different from those from my generation, from your generation. There is no concept of life long term. Stability for them is just a word. And if it is a word that they also use as a totally different meaning compared to how I would define stability, yung the concept of working your way up, they won't understand that. Because as you said, they're very impatient. They lack everything now. Younger listeners might be wondering what's the big deal? The student was playing a game, yes, he disrupted class, yes, but it's not the end of the world. Plus, the professor went viral. You can capitalize on that. Everyone wants to go viral now, and one genuine moment can lead to a career. Just take a look at Uncle Roger. Hiya, hiya, hiya, hiya, hiya. But the professor is old school, and the more I talk to him, the more I sympathize with his position. You've only ever seen it once after the thing came out. Yes, only once, and I could not bear to watch myself again, totally. One, he seems very professional. The gamer student not only passed his class, but got a decent grade. From the very beginning, I made it very clear to him that your grade for this subject is actually suffering. I was able to compartmentalize his performance in class with the incident. Because if you look at the rubrics, if you look at the reading system, we were not allowed at the time. We were discouraged from including the traditional class standing. And I believe that incident fell into the category of class standing. Although we were also struggling on including online behavior or in our handbook at the time, it wasn't yet cast in stone. We were still writing it at the time that the incident occurred. So it was all we were learning as we were going along. And he not only passed, he got a good grade. And earning something from going viral? Not for him. He values his privacy more than capitalizing the invasion of that privacy. A couple of months after the incident, a beverage company, he declined to mention which, but after some researching, we found out it was Mountain Jew offered to have him star in a commercial revolving around the incident. Come on, get that 30. Get that 30, bro. Sir, don't get thirsty down. Ito, do ice. My refreshing, lemon lime sarap. Yan-yan-yan. 30 or zero. Yes, sir. Get back to class. Ang naman ang trip? Mas cool pag may ice. The professor declined and the ad went on without him. Would you like to star in that commercial? I said, absolutely not. It's a very slick ad starring James Reid neatly playing on the viral aspects of the video. Instead of get that 30, James Reid as a student in the online class helpfully explains what the prof heard was, don't get thirsty. And that's the entry point for the soda which the professor character drinks. At the end of the ad, the professor who in spot on casting physically resembles the actual prof the ad is based on, is able to cut into the video of the offending student. Something impossible to do in real life. This is wish fulfillment as envisioned by media savvy younger generation marketing people. Student disrupts online class with his gaming, the product is introduced and after the prof takes in the product he not only has the technical ability to make his presence known literally and figuratively to his student he also has the confidence to tell the true one to get back to class. And the cherry on top is that it's revealed that the prof was a gamer all along and knowledgeable about the game. Are his last words in the ad. This ad neatly encapsulates a bridging of generations a sharing of a common language through games, online video and of course sugar water the product. In real life though it wasn't like that at all because perhaps our generations and certainly I'm closer in age to the prof rather than to the student are at least on some topics unbridgeable. For younger person going viral is exciting literally the fulfillment of a dream for some people and I won't lie the videos of hardware sugar that have gotten a bunch of views semiviral I guess they could be called those got me excited too. For the professor though it was something completely unwelcome. That class was early in the afternoon and then at 6pm just before the game like 4 hours yeah a former student someone who graduated around 3 years ago called me up and asked me sir have you seen your video on YouTube I said what are you talking about I don't have any video on YouTube I've never uploaded sir my friend from Ateneo I cannot forget that sentence my friend from Ateneo shared a video with me showing you reprimanding a student a few hours ago what are you talking about is the elicas gone viral sir so of course I panicked already because I am a very private person I have no social media footprint I don't like it when people know where I am what I'm doing I don't like that so when this thing exploded totally my world collapsed that wall so skillfully built all came down bring down absolutely and it was mayhem for the next 3 weeks mayhem is a good way to describe a viral moment and what feeds that dopamine high if you're involved is watching the number skyrocket seeing how many views you've gotten how many people have shared it reacted etc but the professor is not interested in any of that he doesn't equate happiness with the number of times strangers have seen this small snippet of his life to tell you honestly Anton I didn't care about shares or likes comments I never read them you never read any of the comments no I only heard about the comments both good and bad mostly good thankfully but a few bad ones no it's not that the professor is against old tech in fact he acknowledges that it's a great aid for teaching so he's not a ludite etong technology nito reduced the burden as well for interest for instance checking papers objective in multiple choice oh my goodness I don't have to check them this story though could not have happened without tech key ingredients include multiplayer games online class forgetting to mute your mic screen recording because this would not have gotten out if this hadn't been recorded and published to this day it's unknown who uploaded the video of the class especially in the modern world it's super easy to maintain your privacy we don't know who uploaded the video but violate the privacy of others in this case your classmates and your professor because what was done to you was as you said an invasion of privacy it was actually also illegal because it was an unauthorized recording if you could find out who uploaded that to the public would you have filed suit at the time I probably would have but now looking back no enough because I have moved on totally moved on so it's just one of those many things that it's all character building it's all part of life and at the time yes I would specifically a lot of the trouble can be traced to the online medium for classes as with many things a classroom setting is a lot more impactful in person rather than online and for teachers in particular it has been tremendously challenging something I think the general public and students don't really appreciate to adopt to online classes in particular and changing technology in general one of the reasons why I love teaching is the fact that I can go to school I can go to campus I can dress up I can chat with students in the hallways we could have coffee or something in campus all that of course disappeared during the pandemic so many of the things which I think allowed me to be good in what I do was it was totally disappeared again because of the virtual learning platform do you think if you have to teach through an online platform it's very difficult to be a good teacher well first of all if you will ask me again to go full online I will decline so you will decline? yes I will decline it's not for I have to see the students face to face at least half the time and for my bag of tricks as a teacher I need to be seen I need to be seen I need to be heard in the same classroom live face to face and I think each of us teachers we bring in our own set of tricks in a bag of tricks to the classroom because the students constantly evolve what will appeal to this batch will definitely be very different from what appealed previous one and what will appeal to the future set of students so we also need to evolve and many of the things which I think allows me to be good inside a classroom a physical classroom ideally cannot do in a virtual classroom tech of course is value neutral it's neither good nor bad so it can't be blamed for this situation but what ultimately triggered it was a very human and understandable response it wasn't even the fact that the student was playing games during class time what about that entire thing do you think really struck a nerve with you kasi hindi pa to viral eh let's just say na it's just the recording but even in that recording di pa siya naging viral and you know it hasn't your privacy hasn't been invaded yet I mean you know it hasn't you're not in front of hundreds of thousands of people and this is a situation but just in that very intimate online meeting it's very clear already that you're visibly irritated when you realize that the student is not paying attention why do you think that struck such a nerve with you you know I don't mind students not paying attention for as long as they do that interrupting the thing about that incident was I was interrupting because the mic was not muted I mean if it's if your mic is muted if your webcam is switched off I don't care where you are what you're doing I'd be very lucky if you are really listening and watching but what to me was the greatest insult was that he did not even ensure that the mic was muted that was the greatest insult for me and to be interrupted even in my face-to-face classes prior to the pandemic even this term my goodness I had to be simply in a whole row of girls giggling in the middle of my class which of course typically happens I hate being interrupted I think it's impolite it's inappropriate you can always laugh outside if you find something funny if you don't like to I told it always attendance is not rewarding so if you don't feel like attending if you prefer to play a game or to go shopping or be somewhere else to sleep do not attend my class but the moment you enter my virtual or my physical classroom you are mine in IMFPS period and for anyone to violate that agreement to me is committing the greatest sin I hate being interrupted so yun, yun lang nakomit niya he interrupted at the end of the day it was about respect, a basic human courtesy that even in the best of times we sometimes forget to bring with us and certainly we tend to leave it behind when we engage in tech-enabled activities and I think respect is one of the best things about the old school not the superficial respect of respect my post yung nakikita mo yung kalakohan online no matter how ill-thought-out or poorly expressed that post is but respect for someone a group, an institution that genuinely has your well-being in mind you may not agree sometimes with how this desire for your well-being is expressed but you can't deny that it's there that the one you respect cares for you and respects you in turn the old school is being phased out in need of upgrades one would say rendered obsolete by technology and change the professor admits he's tired there was a certain closeness which I felt with my students for a very long time of course in a very civil very teacher student relationship type of closeness which I enjoyed very much for many many years which interestingly enough I don't feel it now maybe it has something to do maybe it's probably because also I don't do a lot of thesis mentoring lady I have to be very honest I don't get as much satisfaction from from my teaching compared to before the pay is better today but again at the end of the day the money release at a certain stage in our human life you learn it's nice it pays the bills but iba and that's a shame we still have a lot to learn from the old school this was TecShow But Friendly Hardware Sugar's 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