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Because of the way you did your quote, we’ve switched from talking about the TA’s to the teachers themselves. This is sort of different, the teaching assistants
by bee_rider 2y ago
Because of the way you did your quote, we’ve switched from talking about the TA’s to the teachers themselves. This is sort of different, the teaching assistants don’t really have teaching goals and they usually aren’t part of the decision making process for picking what gets taught, at least where I’ve been.
Anyway, as far as “learn the tools they want to teach the students how to use” goes, I dunno, hard to say. I wouldn’t be that surprised to hear that some department head got the wrong-headed idea that students needed to learn more practical tools and skills, shit rolled downhill, and some professor got stuck with the job.
Usually professors aren’t expert tool users after all, they are there for theory stuff. Hopefully nobody is expecting to become a vscode expert by listening to some professor who uses eMacs or vim like a proper grey-beard.
- WalterBright 2y agoA son and his father I know, both engineers, went to an aviation meet where on display was a radial aircraft engine, with cutaways. They spent a happy hour going through every bit of it to figure out what it did and how it worked. They paid to go there. Reminds me of when I was able to climb aboard an old steam locomotive and spent a wonderful hour tracing all the pipes and tubes and controls and figuring out what they did. A good engineering college doesn't actually teach engineering. They teach how to learn engineering. Then you teach yourself.