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> How about teaching the students to copyedit? They might play along with the competition, but the students would conspire to never give each other a grade bel
by notriddle 8y ago
> How about teaching the students to copyedit?
They might play along with the competition, but the students would conspire to never give each other a grade below a C.
- derefr 8y agoThe thing is, it's adversarial: the more you "punish" your student-as-writer peer (by revealing their text to be bereft of meaning), the higher you score for your editing job.
- beefhash 8y agoWhich directly contradicts one of the core value schools want to instill today (at least they do where I live, YMMV of course): Being a team player first and foremost.
- derefr 8y agoWould you describe what students do when sparring in martial arts as “not being a team player”? In any spar, one student will lose; but the point of the spar is for both students to help one-another improve. Sparring usually builds camaraderie, in fact, despite students also striving to win each spar.