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How is having the transcript of the presentation cheating and not just being prepared?
by tener 5y ago
How is having the transcript of the presentation cheating and not just being prepared?
- draugadrotten 5y agoIt's because school is preparing students for life, where it would be outrageous to have written notes while presenting or speaking. What's next, someone else writing the words for you?
- Paraesthetic 5y agoWhats next, paying someone in a poorer country to write your things for you while you 'work from home'
- xnzakg 5y agoYeeeah that's already being done for a a bunch of IT courses. Check out some of those "freelance work" sites, it's fairly obvious a bunch of those are someone's homework...
- grishka 5y agoIt's because school is preparing students for life, where they would never have any chance to look anything up, and could thus only use their own memory. And that "you won't always have a calculator with you" thing math teachers loved so much? Yeah that didn't age well.
- tener 5y agoHow exactly is it outrageous? You are there to deliver the message in a meaningful way, not to recite such message from memory. This is no theater or the cinema where you are playing a role and must be entirely authentic as a result. Sure, literally reading entire thing from your notes in front of your audience is bad form as it fails to build the captivating presentation. It is just distracting for those listening. But damn if this cannot ever work for the online presentation where the speaker isn't visible.
- elcomet 5y agoThe parent was being sarcastic.
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- ben_w 5y agoIn the same way that my ability to use WolframAlpha to answer physics questions in no way qualifies me to say “black holes don’t sound like they could work, surely the way the in-falling particles get an increasingly well defined velocity as they reach the event horizon causes their position to become increasingly undefined until they are almost certainly nowhere near the black hole?”, which is the kind of thing I tend to say because I don’t have a physics degree, and given how physicists generally respond when I say stuff like this there’s a 5% chance I’ve said something interesting and a 95% chance I’m as wrong as 90s Hollywood script writers were about computers.
- thewakalix 5y agoThat’s interesting but I don’t understand how it’s at all similar.
- ben_w 5y agoWith sufficient preparation I could pass any physics test without actually understanding physics. A Chinese room within the mind, if you prefer a philosophy reference. Thinking about it, I really should’ve gone with that analogy first — it keeps this in the category of languages.
- IIAOPSW 5y agoI know you pulled it out of your ass, but your thought on the uncertainty principle and black holes is actually intriguing. A wave function that is fully localized in momentum space (as in has one definite momentum) has to be maximally spread in position space (as in its possible positions are diluted to the point of being everywhere so the odds of observing it anywhere are effectively zero). IIRC some quantum properties like uncertainty have funny ways of being preserved in relativity. They pop out of the equations as unexpectedly nice coincidences, but they feel to good to be true. Like they clearly hint at some profound truth, but its on the tip of everyone's tongue yet no one can grab it. I vaguely recall certain types of entanglement change in an interesting way under the Lorentz transform (don't hold me to that).
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- DrSiemer 5y agoIt was not allowed to use notes on your presentation in this class. It was a very demanding school. The curriculum for French was to learn everything you learn on a normal school in the first two years and then spend the next 4 learning more.