Re: Dropping standards

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From: clemenr
Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 15:12

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BMJ wrote:
> Between the time I finished high school and I had those students,
> standards started slipping.  Allowing calculators into school
classrooms
> was one of the biggest mistakes that could have been made as students

> saw they were no longer required to think.  When I was an undergrad,
I
> used a slide rule until nearly the end of my second year.  The chief
> benefit of that, however, was that I was required to not only reason
my
> way through problems, I had to clearly show what I was doing when I
> wrote them up for submission.

Hmmm.... Some of my assignments insist that students hand in fully
detailed *hand-written* working. Many of my tutorials involve students
sitting by their flash flatscreen computers actively scribbling away
with pencil and paper. Anyone want to guess why I insist on this :-)

Cheers,

Ross-c

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