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There was a time when calculators were not allowed. The solution was that since people can always have access to calculators they should be allowed to use them.
by 6510 6y ago
There was a time when calculators were not allowed. The solution was that since people can always have access to calculators they should be allowed to use them. I think that should work, if a student can use a computer to answer a question he can always use a computer to answer that question. It should be encouraged to do so, the school should make an effort providing- and keeping the answers online and available for download.
- annoyingnoob 6y agoI remember a prof telling the class "if you can figure out how to program your calculator to do this then go for it". I learned how to program my calculator in that class and not much else.
- bagacrap 6y agothis clearly doesn't work because most test questions for students are trivially Google-able. So then tests as they currently exist would not be able to differentiate someone who has studied and internalized the material from someone who Googles quickly. Tests would have to be re-written to require a lot more creativity, which is not only hard to do as a test writer, it's harder to grade and ultimately for students, requires even more effort (compared to rote memorization of facts or rules). So I don't think most students or instructors love this idea.