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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Prep School deems books an "outdated technology" - 11/09/2009 04:00:08 PM 1416 Views
I find this awesome. - 11/09/2009 04:27:54 PM 847 Views
Call me archaic, but... - 12/09/2009 04:08:36 PM 839 Views
I think they should have done both. - 11/09/2009 04:36:53 PM 1192 Views
Ditto *NM* - 12/09/2009 03:39:19 PM 432 Views
I have to go with Tom on this one. *NM* - 12/09/2009 04:09:04 PM 468 Views
Nicely put. *NM* - 15/09/2009 07:15:39 PM 380 Views
what heresy - 11/09/2009 06:02:54 PM 831 Views
I think this is probably a good decision. - 11/09/2009 06:14:28 PM 1050 Views
For colleges it's a very different story, imho. - 11/09/2009 06:24:47 PM 1080 Views
Re: For colleges it's a very different story, imho. - 11/09/2009 06:41:20 PM 952 Views
You're betraying your lack of humanities (ha!) here. - 11/09/2009 07:25:12 PM 1000 Views
Re: You're betraying your lack of humanities (ha!) here. - 12/09/2009 02:48:34 AM 826 Views
*gives you a scanner and a keyboard* Have fun. - 12/09/2009 04:57:58 AM 901 Views
Re: cool, thanks for the free scanner, but... - 12/09/2009 11:01:22 PM 1030 Views
Right. And how many books have they digitized? - 12/09/2009 11:30:59 PM 813 Views
Re: About 8 million - 13/09/2009 02:09:09 AM 961 Views
The internet can evolve, yes, but it has a long way to go. - 11/09/2009 07:45:10 PM 974 Views
They still have physical classrooms, and they're whining about "outdated technology"? Pfft. *NM* - 11/09/2009 06:32:25 PM 458 Views
You say that sarcastically, but for the most part it's true. - 11/09/2009 06:48:35 PM 858 Views
You write that and its from the point of view of lecture - 11/09/2009 07:15:21 PM 910 Views
That, my friend, is precisely my point. *NM* - 11/09/2009 07:23:21 PM 446 Views
Appalling. - 11/09/2009 07:16:13 PM 990 Views
Apparently - 11/09/2009 07:22:50 PM 950 Views
Yeah, you can actually. Have you tried curling up with an eBook reader? - 11/09/2009 09:05:16 PM 927 Views
Keeps you warm better than a book *NM* - 12/09/2009 12:51:04 AM 407 Views
it's still not the same. - 12/09/2009 03:45:10 PM 899 Views
Ignorance. - 15/09/2009 06:08:15 PM 1173 Views
Just because you're unnaturally attuned to "new" things doesn't mean everyone is. - 13/09/2009 12:59:19 AM 835 Views
Your post was beyond stupid. - 15/09/2009 06:01:11 PM 915 Views
Re: Prep School deems books an "outdated technology" - 12/09/2009 01:00:48 PM 1034 Views
Some Prep School, and some students, hence "Some Prep School. " - 12/09/2009 02:04:38 PM 952 Views
bah, who needs to learn how to write a bibliography - 12/09/2009 03:47:32 PM 715 Views
Not really. - 12/09/2009 11:33:46 PM 848 Views

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