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That kind of misses the point for school use. But yes, for personal use you're right
by azag0 9y ago
That kind of misses the point for school use. But yes, for personal use you're right
- krzyk 9y agoAt schools, during exams internet connectivity is disabled on purpose. How Chromebooks work then? EDIT: Why the down votes? My wife is a teacher and disabling internet access during any kind of a test (not to mention exam).
- dsr_ 9y agoAt schools that use Chromebooks, they take away the Chromebooks during exams -- unless the exam is being taken on the Chromebook, which is a thing that happens.
- lucasmullens 9y agoYou take digital exams on computers without internet access? Where and how?
- zuron7 9y agoI'm guessing over the local network.
- krzyk 9y agoAt schools in Poland. You can't have internet access so you won't look up answers on the internet. You have just computer in from of you. It's pretty standard way of doing any kind of grading. Example would be for programming class or for office suite. You don't need internet to work in IDE or in Office.
- squeaky-clean 9y agoAs long as you log in before internet is disabled (don't show up late to class?), you'll be in your user account. The laptop screens don't become black once they lose internet connection. Google Docs/Sheets/etc supports offline editing, and a quick Google shows there are IDE's that run on a chromebook with offline mode support.
- flamedoge 9y agoyea... they're all pretty crap. Need linux to really bring it alive.
- oneplane 9y agoHow does that make for a reliable exam? In the real world you use the internet all the time. The exam should be about your skills, and using information sources like the internet should be one of them. It's not like you can 'download' a perfect answer to a programming exam online, and if you can, then you deserve a medal because you'll be able to build applications faster than everyone else.
- cm2187 9y agoFor mere facts, I could kind of agree, though it is important to learn certain things, like certain historical dates, which you could perfectly google quickly, but not having them in mind means you can't follow a live discussion on the topic. But in disciplines like math or physics, it's about understanding what you are doing. Googlying-copy-pasting without understanding the solution of an exercise defeats its purpose. And it's not because you can google-translate a piece of text that you can speak that language. I am all for modernising education but I am kind of appalled by the culture of google-copy-paste that I have seen 20-something doing when they are confronted to a problem, instead of trying to understand it and having a "what would make sense?" approach.
- s73ver 9y agoIt's the same way we've done exams for the last 100 or so years.
- quickben 9y agoFor job safety, if your job has answers online, you probably want to specialize to move out of that.
- rahoulb 9y agoAs a Ruby developer who has been running my own development business for 10 years and still has to look up how to use Ruby's CSV class every time I use it - I doubt that online answers are going to be what puts me out of business.
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- diminoten 9y agoThat policy decision can instantly be reversed and isn't a technical limitation of any kind.
- endorphone 9y agoThe down votes are likely because you're stating a regional behavior as if it's the universal norm. My children use Chromebooks at school, and fwiw they are very happy and productive with them. They're extremely prolific across the school boards in my jurisdiction. This isn't necessarily true everywhere, though.