you can learn to talk like that too, its just practice and experience comrade :D
Orwell had a really good quote about avoiding cliche phrasing and such. I can't find it, but basically don't just adopt smart sounding phrasing to seem clever. Genuinely clever language doesn't work like that.
It's not something easily quoted, it's a wall of text. Look up "George Orwell writing advice" and you will see what he has to say about writing.
That's incredibly insightful, and I love the term "fertilization of the form" (hate the existence of it though). I think many parents do this as well, trying to train the perfect child instead of raise a good adult.
No head covering for both males and females
Well, good luck with the lawsuit.
You're not allowed to LOOK AWAY from the screen? Would this be even slightly possible for ANYONE or do I have even worse ADHD than I thought?
Looking in different directions is literally directly associated with memory recall. It's the concept that led to trauma therapies like EMDR and brain spotting. Also used as an interrogation tool as supposedly people look in different directions for recalling info vs. generating lies. It's literally insane to expect people to remember information for a test without looking around.
Damn who actually cares this much. If teachers write a good test then students won't be able to cheat on it anyways. Also love the threat of having to buy the premium version of surveillance software.
Just stop testing altogether. It's mostly useless
And before anyone accuses me of jealousy, I'm saying this as a person who always aced tests by cramming the night before, while taking 0 notes, sleeping in class and never turning in homework. If I can do that they're clearly not very useful. You learn much more by doing projects and homework.
Tests can maybe gauge how well-stuck everything is in the emotional recall part of your brain. Maybe have them, but let them be 20% of the total grade maximum. Any more is dumb because they can easily be gamed by cramming--and keeping the % low disincentivizes people to cram for the test. They should also be administered at random unannounced times, so they truly serve their purpose.
A lot of people think of high test-scorers as "lazy but smart" but the truth is that many of us just crammed, it's like everyone else is running a marathon, we just sit around doing nothing and when the video camera (aka the exam) comes, we start sprinting for 20 seconds to look good.
Lectures are also extremely overrated because it's impossible to keep pace with everything said, and to get all your questions answered. 1-on-1 sessions with professors is really the only only useful part of teaching.
Also if I can cheat on your test, your test sucks
1-on-1 sessions with professors is really the only only useful part of teaching.
Any university that has the resources to this may as well replace written exams with oral ones. They're hard to cram for and typically it's much easier to gauge understanding when the instructor can ask follow up questions. My preferred testing method for a final exam is an independent small research project, with a written component, an oral presentation, and follow up questions by the instructor. I've never seen this in anything but graduate courses, primarily due to class sizes, but also a typical undergrad cohort's breadth of knowledge isn't exactly large enough to implement practically for 1st and 2nd year courses. Worth mentioning that Italy and, I think, Russia tend to do oral exams in undergraduate, and grad students from those places tend to think it was a great way to be tested.
I disagree on the lecture part. A good professor budgets in (and encourages) questions to make sure everyone understands the material. Tests are indeed incredibly easy to cram and cheat on. I crammed all of my HS and college math tests and passed every one of them. I remember literally zero of it.
I wish my math cramming abilities had lasted into college, I burned out by sophomore year.
This also reminds me of this UCF professor's cheating lecture to his business class. Basically, all the midterm exam questions were taken from a test bank and some students got ahold of that bank and used it to study. This is after he'd previously claimed he writes all the questions himself.
He then tries to claim he and his assistants had used "
statisticalforensic analysis" to determine with like 95% accuracy exactly who cheated, and if they didn't come forward within 7 days they would be expelled (obviously bullshit). Also claims he reached out to the test bank publisher about it and they were "contacting the authorities" lmaohttps://en.wikisource.org/wiki/My_Pedagogic_Creed
I believe that all questions of the grading of the child and his promotion should be determined by reference to the same standard. Examinations are of use only so far as they test the child's fitness for social life and reveal the place in which he can be of the most service and where he can receive the most help.
Please excuse the gendered language.
Noam Chomsky and Michael Brooks both attended Deweyite schools in their youth. There might be something to it.
This is what happens when you try to squeeze IRL teaching methods like written exams into a paradigm of online teaching.
Written exams aren't the norm for in-person teaching because they're particularly good at testing ability, they're the norm because they're easy to administer. In an online setting they are functionally impossible to administer, so guess what? Find a different way to grade students.
Make them write a paper. A detailed lab report. Work on a project. If your written test is already just one of several components for grading, just fucking skip it. That's what I did last semester.
If you really want to stick to the "you have x minutes to complete this task" formula, make it an open book (open browser) exam. If you can't come up with problems that aren't trivialized by access to a pc or the internet, your course probably doesn't teach anything worthwhile in the first place.
If you can’t come up with problems that aren’t trivialized by access to a pc or the internet, your course probably doesn’t teach anything worthwhile in the first place.
About as useful as making fire with two sticks is to a man with a lighter.
Man, I just played The Outer Worlds and it hits this point home a lot. People being forced to pay for lost productivity and repairs after their hand is caught in unsafe machinery, a town have to pay restitution to a corporation when a worker commits suicide, etc.
the last time I had a laptop with a built in one, I disabled that fucker and put gaffa tape over it
Anyone with a laptop does, and most college students have laptops.
At this point I'm glad I dropped out.
love when it becomes bold all of a sudden and it doesn't sto-OH LOOK HERE ARE THE ALL CAPS
get some of that catfishing software and instead of using it to defraud horny dudes into thinking you are a hot cam girl use it to defraud your teacher into thinking you are paying attention.
It records the computer screen while you take the exam to ensure you don’t look anything up.
the temptation to immediately put on the most depraved furry porn would be too great for me
you have to slowly move your camera/computer around so it is able to record that your workspace and nearby areas are completely free of any materials which could be used to cheat.
big fuckoff dildo prominently displayed
i am realising that I would not do well at distance learning
Just do a fucking open-book exam, holy shit it's not even a novel concept
yeah it would be impossible to search up every relevant detail and feign sufficient comprehension in a timed test like that, no oversight needed
okay why force students to take a test that isn't worth grading by hand
yeah that is a nice comment
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Tests are just meant to see if you understood the fucking material. This is all fucking fascist shit for no good reason.
This is totally unnecessary, I’m in medical school and we’re allowed to take our exams however we want
My favorite professor allowed open book, open notes tests. He tested comprehension, not memorization. Shits like this aren't even just controlling, but also bad teachers.
Some of the hardest exams ever are open book. Difficulty is a matter of designing good questions.
What is the hell is going on. There has been online and pre-online home school cirriculums around for ages. Why are "real" teachers having such a hard time.
College Professors don't have any sort of mandatory training in pedagogy. Subject matter expert = Qualified teacher no questions asked.
And, as with all organizations, the goal is to keep the system rolling along with as little energy expenditure as possible. So even if you have people who are interested in changing the horrible status quo that they’ve been handed (ie, new teachers, although certainly not all of them), there is no incentive to do so and probably no or a very weak apparatus to support them
The incentive and apparatus actually very much work against being a decent teacher, atleast with any mixed assignment (teaching + research faculty). For those sorts of faculty, the issue of paramount importance is bringing grant money in, followed a ways by producing research paper output, and only the most perfunctory of teaching.
Spending a lot of time to improve your teaching at the expense of research+grants will absolutely torpedo your tenure changes.
