I never said it was cheating. But I remember in a textbook, I believe history, there was no mention of anything related to the question problem in the chapter. It was actually answered in the next chapter, so I think it was an error made by the author/publisher.
I was just saying it wouldn’t surprise me if schools scanned textbooks or provided ebook versions and provided chapters piecemeal, and then students would be screwed because they wouldn’t be able read ahead to find out the out of place question was answered in the next chapter.
Even if it was an entirely different book provided, my experience in online college is that you have to work with absolute slop. It wouldn’t surprise me if the same errors that were minimal in old textbooks were more frequent in the rat’s nest of online courses and their app abominations where the content created by slave wage staff is rushed and half-assed.
I could see that. Flipping around textbooks was kinda fun too. You’d get to wonder what stuff you’d actually touch on. I don’t think screens belong in almost any classroom at all until at least high school and then only AP classes. Computer classes and stuff that actually needs one are exceptions too of course.
I graduated in 2010 and the school I went to had just gotten a rack of laptops that a teacher could sign out for classes that no one used. Our overworked social studies/French teacher who taught noth classes for 2 different grades, so he was a 4 class having guy tried out something. He gave us the entire semester of questions to answer, like 50 pages and signed out the laptops, let us use the library at a whim and just gave us the semester to do it at our own pace. He was in the room grading papers and you could just go up to the desk and ask him stuff. I loved it, it’s social studies so it was a general topic that I’d read about in my own time for fun anyway, was just starting to read theory and like being left to do my own research with a guy who knows his shit available to discuss it with. I’d be blasting through stuff using pdfs (Wikipedia citations with a correct answer were worth half a point) and ctrl F, if a topic seemed interesting I’d go chat with the guy, dude LOVED social studies, geography, cultures, economics, the whole thing and so do I so we’d have some pretty fun chats and the whole thing was a breeze that I finished in a couple months and then played emulators for the rest of the time. Other kids could not resist the wider internet and sucked at it. Other kids my age were on newgrounds when they used the internet at home, by 2nd grade I’d figured out there were Japanese digimon fansites that I could copy and paste into babelfish and be a year ahead of everyone else story-wise. Web 1.0 had sooooo much reading material and I ate that up. Worked fantastic for me because I was interested and engaged in the subject, was on very friendly terms with the teacher (who intimidated everyone else cause he was intimidating and also trying to crack our dumb asses into intellectual shape cause he cared a lot. One time the PA box fell off the wall and just barely missed him, so he phoned down to the office and calmly said ‘I think there’s something wrong with the pa box in my classroom…It fell…I was up front speaking…yes it was a very close call. I felt the air from it as it fell behind my back pushing me forward. Like my fury.’ And then hung up. Our end of the year assignment was to write an essay on the fundamental nature of competition and my pen doth flew for that one. He said he had been doing this year end essay for 15 years and he found mine absolutely profound and it changed his views, no bullshit I essayed a high school teacher of mine into Marxism). Back from my digressing, the internet isn’t what it was then and that kind of system would have been suffocating to the point of torment for me and I don’t think it would help the kids who when given laptops and a semester of questions will spend 4 months playing flash games and then copy and paste from Wikipedia. Those kids got failed cause they then cited the page they copied and pasted from but didn’t quote the copy and paste. Just wrote thar they read the Wikipedia article. Real learning is done in books. Full stop.
I never said it was cheating. But I remember in a textbook, I believe history, there was no mention of anything related to the question problem in the chapter. It was actually answered in the next chapter, so I think it was an error made by the author/publisher.
I was just saying it wouldn’t surprise me if schools scanned textbooks or provided ebook versions and provided chapters piecemeal, and then students would be screwed because they wouldn’t be able read ahead to find out the out of place question was answered in the next chapter.
Even if it was an entirely different book provided, my experience in online college is that you have to work with absolute slop. It wouldn’t surprise me if the same errors that were minimal in old textbooks were more frequent in the rat’s nest of online courses and their app abominations where the content created by slave wage staff is rushed and half-assed.
I could see that. Flipping around textbooks was kinda fun too. You’d get to wonder what stuff you’d actually touch on. I don’t think screens belong in almost any classroom at all until at least high school and then only AP classes. Computer classes and stuff that actually needs one are exceptions too of course.
I graduated in 2010 and the school I went to had just gotten a rack of laptops that a teacher could sign out for classes that no one used. Our overworked social studies/French teacher who taught noth classes for 2 different grades, so he was a 4 class having guy tried out something. He gave us the entire semester of questions to answer, like 50 pages and signed out the laptops, let us use the library at a whim and just gave us the semester to do it at our own pace. He was in the room grading papers and you could just go up to the desk and ask him stuff. I loved it, it’s social studies so it was a general topic that I’d read about in my own time for fun anyway, was just starting to read theory and like being left to do my own research with a guy who knows his shit available to discuss it with. I’d be blasting through stuff using pdfs (Wikipedia citations with a correct answer were worth half a point) and ctrl F, if a topic seemed interesting I’d go chat with the guy, dude LOVED social studies, geography, cultures, economics, the whole thing and so do I so we’d have some pretty fun chats and the whole thing was a breeze that I finished in a couple months and then played emulators for the rest of the time. Other kids could not resist the wider internet and sucked at it. Other kids my age were on newgrounds when they used the internet at home, by 2nd grade I’d figured out there were Japanese digimon fansites that I could copy and paste into babelfish and be a year ahead of everyone else story-wise. Web 1.0 had sooooo much reading material and I ate that up. Worked fantastic for me because I was interested and engaged in the subject, was on very friendly terms with the teacher (who intimidated everyone else cause he was intimidating and also trying to crack our dumb asses into intellectual shape cause he cared a lot. One time the PA box fell off the wall and just barely missed him, so he phoned down to the office and calmly said ‘I think there’s something wrong with the pa box in my classroom…It fell…I was up front speaking…yes it was a very close call. I felt the air from it as it fell behind my back pushing me forward. Like my fury.’ And then hung up. Our end of the year assignment was to write an essay on the fundamental nature of competition and my pen doth flew for that one. He said he had been doing this year end essay for 15 years and he found mine absolutely profound and it changed his views, no bullshit I essayed a high school teacher of mine into Marxism). Back from my digressing, the internet isn’t what it was then and that kind of system would have been suffocating to the point of torment for me and I don’t think it would help the kids who when given laptops and a semester of questions will spend 4 months playing flash games and then copy and paste from Wikipedia. Those kids got failed cause they then cited the page they copied and pasted from but didn’t quote the copy and paste. Just wrote thar they read the Wikipedia article. Real learning is done in books. Full stop.