{"id":7312,"date":"2013-07-17T08:09:12","date_gmt":"2013-07-17T15:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=7312"},"modified":"2013-07-16T13:36:14","modified_gmt":"2013-07-16T20:36:14","slug":"know-your-profs-camosun-economics-instructor-bijan-ahmadi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2013\/07\/17\/know-your-profs-camosun-economics-instructor-bijan-ahmadi\/","title":{"rendered":"Know Your Profs<\/em>: Camosun economics instructor Bijan Ahmadi"},"content":{"rendered":"

Know Your Profs<\/i> is an ongoing series of articles helping you get to know the instructors at Camosun College a bit better. Got someone you want to see interviewed? Email editor@nexusnewspaper.com and we\u2019ll get on it. This time around we caught up with economics instructor Bijan Ahmadi and talked about robot teachers, cell phones, and taco night.<\/p>\n

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Camosun instructor Bijan Ahmadi (photo provided).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

1: What do you teach and how long have you been a teacher at Camosun?<\/i>
\nI teach in the economics department. Micro and Macro, mostly. This September I will have been here a year.<\/p>\n

2: What do you personally get out of teaching?<\/i>
\nI like to watch the students applying what they have learned to the real world. That\u2019s when they start thinking like economists.<\/p>\n

3: What\u2019s the one thing that you wish your students knew about you?<\/i>
\nI see patterns in everything, kind of like that Numb3rs<\/i> guy. But I\u2019m not such a dork\u00c9 or maybe I\u2019m more of one.<\/p>\n

4: What\u2019s one thing you wish they didn\u2019t know about you?<\/i>
\nI might seem cold and calculated, but I\u2019m actually a big softie at heart.<\/p>\n

5: What\u2019s the best thing that\u2019s ever happened to you as a teacher here?<\/i>
\nI had a student change their schedule so they could take my class the next term.<\/p>\n

6: What\u2019s the worst thing that\u2019s ever happened to you as a teacher here?<\/i>
\nI recently read a scathing review on ratemyprofessors.com and it really hit me hard.<\/p>\n

7: What do you see in the future of postsecondary education?<\/i>
\nRobot teachers. Well, hopefully not, but I definitely see the virtual classroom idea opening up.<\/p>\n

8: What do you do to relax on the weekends?<\/i>
\nI pack in as much fun and excitement as my kids can handle. There\u2019s lots of running around and screaming.<\/p>\n

9: What is your favourite meal?<\/i>
\nInnovation is the cornerstone to gastronomy, but I do love build-your-own taco night at our house.<\/p>\n

10: What\u2019s your biggest pet peeve?<\/i>
\nThe intrusion of cell phones into the classroom, and our lives in general, has led to a real social\u0118disconnect. I\u2019m all for digital learning, but it still irks me to watch a student staring blankly at their phone the whole class.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Know Your Profs is an ongoing series of articles helping you get to know the instructors at Camosun College a bit better. Got someone you want to see interviewed? Email editor@nexusnewspaper.com and we\u2019ll get on it. This time around we caught up with economics instructor Bijan Ahmadi and talked about robot teachers, cell phones, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus","category-july-17-2013"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t