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Everyone would get an "A"?

Siecje 11y ago
You can still not learn very much and still get a good grade. Students are attending to learn and will give negative reviews when they are not learning as much as they expected they would learn.
- dagw 11y ago
  Students are attending to learn Depends very much on the course. A lot courses are attended by a lot of students who just need the course to fulfill some requirement and want nothing more than to get a pass with as little work as possible.
  - emodendroket 11y ago
    It's hardly the case that the same thing doesn't apply to students majoring in the subject.
- emodendroket 11y ago
  > Students are attending to learn and will give negative reviews when they are not learning as much as they expected they would learn. I admire your optimism but I just don't think that's true in even half the cases.
VLM 11y ago
Something to think about: My intro to philosophy prof felt the value of his class was the performance art aspect of sitting thru his admittedly pretty well performed Socratic method in class. The administration wouldn't let him skip finals, so he told us to write whatever we felt like writing to him, place whatever grade we felt we earned on the top, and that would be our grade. From memory the other CS students and I ganged up on him and convinced him to talk about brain-in-a-vat in class for a couple days so I wrote on that topic. This could apply outside philosophy. I sat thru some chemistry classes that bordered on performance art working thru endless examples of problems in class. I think I pretty much learned quantitative chemical analysis by osmosis just watching the prof work problems. I still remember endless buffer solutions puzzles over 20 years later. Also ochem lab was self explanatory, its a practical lab class nothing more, from memory there was no lecture component beyond "this is the fire extinguisher, here is the safety shower, here is the eye wash station" etc. This could probably be extended to CS/IT classes, somehow.

You can still not learn very much and still get a good grade. Students are attending to learn and will give negative reviews when they are not learning as much as they expected they would learn.

dagw 11y ago
Students are attending to learn Depends very much on the course. A lot courses are attended by a lot of students who just need the course to fulfill some requirement and want nothing more than to get a pass with as little work as possible.
- emodendroket 11y ago
  It's hardly the case that the same thing doesn't apply to students majoring in the subject.
emodendroket 11y ago
> Students are attending to learn and will give negative reviews when they are not learning as much as they expected they would learn. I admire your optimism but I just don't think that's true in even half the cases.

VLM 11y ago

Something to think about: My intro to philosophy prof felt the value of his class was the performance art aspect of sitting thru his admittedly pretty well performed Socratic method in class. The administration wouldn't let him skip finals, so he told us to write whatever we felt like writing to him, place whatever grade we felt we earned on the top, and that would be our grade. From memory the other CS students and I ganged up on him and convinced him to talk about brain-in-a-vat in class for a couple days so I wrote on that topic. This could apply outside philosophy. I sat thru some chemistry classes that bordered on performance art working thru endless examples of problems in class. I think I pretty much learned quantitative chemical analysis by osmosis just watching the prof work problems. I still remember endless buffer solutions puzzles over 20 years later. Also ochem lab was self explanatory, its a practical lab class nothing more, from memory there was no lecture component beyond "this is the fire extinguisher, here is the safety shower, here is the eye wash station" etc. This could probably be extended to CS/IT classes, somehow.