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You say that sarcastically, but for the most part it's true. Aemon Send a noteboard - 11/09/2009 06:48:35 PM
Most classrooms are useless. There's no reason to make students come to lecture every day when the lectures could be recorded and put online. Most of them ARE recorded and put online, in many schools. I mean, it's true that you can't ask questions and stuff, but the benefits of being able to pause a lecture for taking notes, re-listen to parts you didn't understand, and so on, far outweigh being able to ask questions which you could just as easily email/im to the professor/TA.

Myself, I think it'd be a better idea just to have a few lecture hall style classrooms where you can come and get help with homework (it's hard to show someone how to work out calculus problems over the internet, with current technology), or take tests, etc, and put the actual teaching online.
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Prep School deems books an "outdated technology" - 11/09/2009 04:00:08 PM 1694 Views
I find this awesome. - 11/09/2009 04:27:54 PM 1086 Views
Call me archaic, but... - 12/09/2009 04:08:36 PM 1067 Views
I think they should have done both. - 11/09/2009 04:36:53 PM 1467 Views
Ditto *NM* - 12/09/2009 03:39:19 PM 546 Views
I have to go with Tom on this one. *NM* - 12/09/2009 04:09:04 PM 582 Views
Nicely put. *NM* - 15/09/2009 07:15:39 PM 502 Views
what heresy - 11/09/2009 06:02:54 PM 1068 Views
I think this is probably a good decision. - 11/09/2009 06:14:28 PM 1316 Views
For colleges it's a very different story, imho. - 11/09/2009 06:24:47 PM 1343 Views
Re: For colleges it's a very different story, imho. - 11/09/2009 06:41:20 PM 1184 Views
You're betraying your lack of humanities (ha!) here. - 11/09/2009 07:25:12 PM 1232 Views
Re: You're betraying your lack of humanities (ha!) here. - 12/09/2009 02:48:34 AM 1048 Views
*gives you a scanner and a keyboard* Have fun. - 12/09/2009 04:57:58 AM 1140 Views
Re: cool, thanks for the free scanner, but... - 12/09/2009 11:01:22 PM 1276 Views
Right. And how many books have they digitized? - 12/09/2009 11:30:59 PM 1053 Views
Re: About 8 million - 13/09/2009 02:09:09 AM 1197 Views
The internet can evolve, yes, but it has a long way to go. - 11/09/2009 07:45:10 PM 1221 Views
They still have physical classrooms, and they're whining about "outdated technology"? Pfft. *NM* - 11/09/2009 06:32:25 PM 580 Views
You say that sarcastically, but for the most part it's true. - 11/09/2009 06:48:35 PM 1069 Views
You write that and its from the point of view of lecture - 11/09/2009 07:15:21 PM 1158 Views
That, my friend, is precisely my point. *NM* - 11/09/2009 07:23:21 PM 558 Views
Appalling. - 11/09/2009 07:16:13 PM 1258 Views
Apparently - 11/09/2009 07:22:50 PM 1208 Views
Yeah, you can actually. Have you tried curling up with an eBook reader? - 11/09/2009 09:05:16 PM 1164 Views
Keeps you warm better than a book *NM* - 12/09/2009 12:51:04 AM 525 Views
it's still not the same. - 12/09/2009 03:45:10 PM 1129 Views
Ignorance. - 15/09/2009 06:08:15 PM 1402 Views
Just because you're unnaturally attuned to "new" things doesn't mean everyone is. - 13/09/2009 12:59:19 AM 1063 Views
Your post was beyond stupid. - 15/09/2009 06:01:11 PM 1128 Views
Re: Prep School deems books an "outdated technology" - 12/09/2009 01:00:48 PM 1301 Views
Some Prep School, and some students, hence "Some Prep School. " - 12/09/2009 02:04:38 PM 1174 Views
bah, who needs to learn how to write a bibliography - 12/09/2009 03:47:32 PM 932 Views
Not really. - 12/09/2009 11:33:46 PM 1089 Views

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