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You write that and its from the point of view of lecture The Shrike Send a noteboard - 11/09/2009 07:15:21 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.


But most of my classes in hs, except for math, involved huge amounts of discussion once the professor/teacher was over talking. And the technology is not quite there yet to create a true virtual classroom where discussion can be as freeflowing as it is in person.
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Ditto *NM* - 12/09/2009 03:39:19 PM 489 Views
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Nicely put. *NM* - 15/09/2009 07:15:39 PM 443 Views
what heresy - 11/09/2009 06:02:54 PM 954 Views
I think this is probably a good decision. - 11/09/2009 06:14:28 PM 1185 Views
For colleges it's a very different story, imho. - 11/09/2009 06:24:47 PM 1225 Views
Re: For colleges it's a very different story, imho. - 11/09/2009 06:41:20 PM 1072 Views
You're betraying your lack of humanities (ha!) here. - 11/09/2009 07:25:12 PM 1112 Views
Re: You're betraying your lack of humanities (ha!) here. - 12/09/2009 02:48:34 AM 933 Views
*gives you a scanner and a keyboard* Have fun. - 12/09/2009 04:57:58 AM 1022 Views
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Re: About 8 million - 13/09/2009 02:09:09 AM 1078 Views
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They still have physical classrooms, and they're whining about "outdated technology"?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 525 Views
You say that sarcastically, but for the most part it's true. - 11/09/2009 06:48:35 PM 956 Views
You write that and its from the point of view of lecture - 11/09/2009 07:15:21 PM 1017 Views
That, my friend, is precisely my point. *NM* - 11/09/2009 07:23:21 PM 504 Views
Appalling. - 11/09/2009 07:16:13 PM 1142 Views
Apparently - 11/09/2009 07:22:50 PM 1083 Views
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Keeps you warm better than a book *NM* - 12/09/2009 12:51:04 AM 462 Views
it's still not the same. - 12/09/2009 03:45:10 PM 1019 Views
Ignorance. - 15/09/2009 06:08:15 PM 1286 Views
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Your post was beyond stupid. - 15/09/2009 06:01:11 PM 1029 Views
Re: Prep School deems books an "outdated technology" - 12/09/2009 01:00:48 PM 1182 Views
Some Prep School, and some students, hence "Some Prep School. " - 12/09/2009 02:04:38 PM 1061 Views
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