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.
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.
Prep School deems books an "outdated technology"
11/09/2009 04:00:08 PM
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I find this awesome.
11/09/2009 04:27:54 PM
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I think this may mark the first time you and I have completely agreed on a subject.
*NM*
11/09/2009 05:54:49 PM
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I think they should have done both.
11/09/2009 04:36:53 PM
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I thought about making a post, but it would be a poor version of this one. I agree completely. *NM*
11/09/2009 07:21:29 PM
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I'd be shocked, except that I'm not sure why a HS needs a library in the first place.
11/09/2009 06:01:44 PM
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Most high schools have libraries.
11/09/2009 07:13:37 PM
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I'm not surprised, I've seen enough American movies and TV shows to realize that.
11/09/2009 07:23:15 PM
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Re: I'm not surprised, I've seen enough American movies and TV shows to realize that.
12/09/2009 02:36:33 AM
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I think this is probably a good decision.
11/09/2009 06:14:28 PM
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For colleges it's a very different story, imho.
11/09/2009 06:24:47 PM
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Re: For colleges it's a very different story, imho.
11/09/2009 06:41:20 PM
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You're betraying your lack of humanities (ha!) here.
11/09/2009 07:25:12 PM
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Yes. No one writing directly from wikipedia should BE in college.
11/09/2009 07:30:47 PM
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Re: You're betraying your lack of humanities (ha!) here.
12/09/2009 02:48:34 AM
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*gives you a scanner and a keyboard* Have fun.
12/09/2009 04:57:58 AM
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Re: cool, thanks for the free scanner, but...
12/09/2009 11:01:22 PM
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They still have physical classrooms, and they're whining about "outdated technology"? Pfft. *NM*
11/09/2009 06:32:25 PM
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You say that sarcastically, but for the most part it's true.
11/09/2009 06:48:35 PM
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Appalling.
11/09/2009 07:16:13 PM
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Yeah, you can actually. Have you tried curling up with an eBook reader?
11/09/2009 09:05:16 PM
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Just because you're unnaturally attuned to "new" things doesn't mean everyone is.
13/09/2009 12:59:19 AM
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Re: Prep School deems books an "outdated technology"
12/09/2009 01:00:48 PM
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I agree, but students going to a prep school probably don't have financial problems. *NM*
12/09/2009 11:31:53 PM
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Some Prep School, and some students, hence "Some Prep School. "
12/09/2009 02:04:38 PM
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bah, who needs to learn how to write a bibliography
12/09/2009 03:47:32 PM
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You're telling the wrong person; he has a form he wants them to observe.
12/09/2009 05:20:34 PM
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