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In reply to the discussion: Professors at research universities prefer teaching with old-fashioned whiteboards [View all]eppur_se_muova
(36,261 posts)63. Many classes have a policy forbidding anything beyond a four-banger calculator on exams.
Unfortunate, but fancy calculators these days are full-blown computers, with lots of memory for large amounts of data/text. And phones with built-in calculators are a temptation to text or web-browse during exams. iPods and other music devices may have taped verbal notes or even be comm radios in disguise, so no headphones or earbuds during exams.
I was never allowed to use a calculator on an exam as a student. If you couldn't do long division and simple logs/antilogs you were at the wrong school. Of course, exam questions were structured to be solvable without anything too complicated -- if you were doing a lot of difficult arithmetic on an exam problem, you were likely on the wrong track.
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Professors at research universities prefer teaching with old-fashioned whiteboards [View all]
HiPointDem
Feb 2013
OP
"Distance learning," in one manner or another, has been the university initiative since the 1950's
alcibiades_mystery
Feb 2013
#6
This new technology is going to radically alter education beyond recognition ...
eppur_se_muova
Feb 2013
#10
Cost of reproduction and the shift to learning, rather than teaching, will change education
FarCenter
Feb 2013
#12
"shift to learning v teaching" = baloney. shift to corporate control of all education & information
HiPointDem
Feb 2013
#16
Far Center: the DIY education strategy works well for simple, discrete skills, not for deep learning
GiaGiovanni
Feb 2013
#19
Dang, you mean we can't blindly apply mass production methods and get good results ?
eppur_se_muova
Feb 2013
#30
IIRC, there was a grad student or two that had posted hours; commuter students used them
FarCenter
Feb 2013
#47
Many classes have a policy forbidding anything beyond a four-banger calculator on exams.
eppur_se_muova
Feb 2013
#63
It has it's down side, but when you are working on a problem, nothing beats it.
bemildred
Feb 2013
#67
Except whenever I have a class with one I live in fear of that noise, you know the one. It's
Ed Suspicious
Feb 2013
#64
LisaLynne, for old timers who've been teaching the same courses for years...
GiaGiovanni
Feb 2013
#28
"Old-fashioned" whiteboards ? Whiteboards SUCK. Blackboards are far more practical.
eppur_se_muova
Feb 2013
#9
There is such a thing as hypoallergenic chalk (Google), and at least some of what I have used ...
eppur_se_muova
Feb 2013
#62
Whatever you do, don't look up the ingredients in the whiteboard *cleaner* ....
eppur_se_muova
Feb 2013
#49
As a translator, I have come to the conclusion that the business world still thinks
Lydia Leftcoast
Feb 2013
#20
Yes. they have almost a religious belief in data of any kind taken under any conditions
GiaGiovanni
Feb 2013
#36
Worse, both the teachers and the students tend to get wrapped up in the technology
Egalitarian Thug
Feb 2013
#40