doctoral candidate in rhetoric and scientific and technical communication
your cheatin’ ways
Students are ingenious when it comes to creating ways to pass tests. After watching this video, I had a few thoughts:
- I might want to reward a student who put so much creativity, time, and thought into cheating;
- If this much time is put into cheating, why isn’t this much time put into actually learning the subject matter?
This really is creative, but if the same person who came up with this developed an equally creative way to learn the test materials (and believe me, I hate tests — I don’t think they are a fair assessment of what is learned in a class), then perhaps even more people would benefit from an innovative mind.
via Michael Faris
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I’ve always agreed with #1, you should reward creativity… or maybe that’s just because I’m a student!
Case in point, my university has cracked down on other students taking computer science who hack their calculators to include wireless transmitters, I think the fact they were able to reprogram something so complicated (and more difficult than anything on any of the exams!) should give them a passing mark not expulsion!
Cheers :)
Ruben