http://news.yahoo.com/video/business-15749...eating-22954742
So students do what they always do in an exam, and the media and staff act like the school was bombed?
I've had college exams almost every class this week. If you look around the room, you'll see every other person on a smartphone looking up answers, on Wolfram-Alpha, or maybe just have notecards in their laps with cheat sheets on them. Students, especially college students that have jobs, other classes, and/or no time to study cheat all the time. Why are the media and schools jumping all over this story?
Ironically I'm just helping spread it around, but it pisses me off that so many people are in trouble for this. The days of paper-and-pencil, study-till-you-drop tests are numbered in this learning system. In this day and age, you shouldn't have to take a physics course if you're going for Nursing, or writing courses if you're going for some sort of computer field.
You should be learning through experience, not books or the internet.
The American college system is fast becoming obsolete, not just because you're forced to take "traditional" classes you don't need for your profession, but because itis much easier to obtain information than just 10 or 20 years ago. Most students can bring the aforementioned smartphones into class and get the answers while their small device is in their pocket. Wolfram-Alpha, for example, is just one of many sites that can help you on almost any test, from physics to advanced calculus.
My point is, in the real world in a real job, if you or somebody has a question you can't figure out, what do you do? Pull out a thousand page textbook and pour over it until you find what you're looking for, then put it away and see if you can solve the problem hours or days later without the book or any notes? Of course not!
You or your coworkers can use some sort of internet enabled device and find the answer almost instantly, or if that's not possible then you learn through your experience or the experience of another.
If you're in a field or area where you can't do that, well, you should already know whatever it is you need to know. Like if you're going into the medical field, or somewhere where you need to know everything by heart and you're in poor working conditions.
For the rest of us that are going to be stuck in an office or some other place surrounded by technology (like myself
), we don't need to memorize everything. I'm sure the greatest programmers in the world don't know every aspect of every programming language. They definitely don't have every technique in an advanced algebra book memorized.
/rant /debate
/overtired -.-
So students do what they always do in an exam, and the media and staff act like the school was bombed?
I've had college exams almost every class this week. If you look around the room, you'll see every other person on a smartphone looking up answers, on Wolfram-Alpha, or maybe just have notecards in their laps with cheat sheets on them. Students, especially college students that have jobs, other classes, and/or no time to study cheat all the time. Why are the media and schools jumping all over this story?
Ironically I'm just helping spread it around, but it pisses me off that so many people are in trouble for this. The days of paper-and-pencil, study-till-you-drop tests are numbered in this learning system. In this day and age, you shouldn't have to take a physics course if you're going for Nursing, or writing courses if you're going for some sort of computer field.
You should be learning through experience, not books or the internet.
The American college system is fast becoming obsolete, not just because you're forced to take "traditional" classes you don't need for your profession, but because itis much easier to obtain information than just 10 or 20 years ago. Most students can bring the aforementioned smartphones into class and get the answers while their small device is in their pocket. Wolfram-Alpha, for example, is just one of many sites that can help you on almost any test, from physics to advanced calculus.
My point is, in the real world in a real job, if you or somebody has a question you can't figure out, what do you do? Pull out a thousand page textbook and pour over it until you find what you're looking for, then put it away and see if you can solve the problem hours or days later without the book or any notes? Of course not!
You or your coworkers can use some sort of internet enabled device and find the answer almost instantly, or if that's not possible then you learn through your experience or the experience of another.
If you're in a field or area where you can't do that, well, you should already know whatever it is you need to know. Like if you're going into the medical field, or somewhere where you need to know everything by heart and you're in poor working conditions.
For the rest of us that are going to be stuck in an office or some other place surrounded by technology (like myself
), we don't need to memorize everything. I'm sure the greatest programmers in the world don't know every aspect of every programming language. They definitely don't have every technique in an advanced algebra book memorized./rant /debate
/overtired -.-
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