Posted on 05/02/2020 11:46:43 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat
In real life if you don’t know the answer you typically go online to research it. So they are just doing what they would be doing a couple years from now,
Well, we remember his name so easily because he is despised as much as Hitler to an Austrian/Chicago/Auburn economist fan.
Reminds me of a couple of college friends doing their first EE lab.
They did a number on some meter, and the repair guy shows up, and said to the lab assistant: "Huh. Never saw THAT before. Usually only the needle gets bent. This is all but fried."
Your meters had needles? Yes mine did too, but my students were in the age of read out meters, and fortunately most had some self protection. Except for the ammeters, sigh.
Yes, I taught several EE labs and we had only half the meters working by the end of the quarter. And how many times did we learn that LEDs have polarity? Its really too bad I aged so fast but I ran out of lung power, and now this virus— People my age are wondering how we will get out of this one. But I did manage to leave teaching when they still wanted me. Better than the other way around.
I read they might have at home SAT exams in June. Imagine!!!
college degrees are cheap anymore...the scores are on a curve and you can bet your bippy the minorities and the favored rich will be given grades far above their actual abilities...
Well I admire Milton Keynes, too.
But the roundabout off the M1 just as you approach from the East is tough to negotiate during rush hour.
(I used to drive from RAF Chicksands to RAF Upper Heyford quite a bit during 1992)
I intentionally gave the wrong answers on a Humanities 201 test because I knew the guy next to me was copying my answers.
I told the Prof., who let me retake the test privately.
I got the A; dumbass copier got the F.
He never copied my test again!
A FRiend’s daughter, who is an elementary grade school teacher told me FRiday that many of her kid’s parents are doing their kid’s homework!
She said it is VERY easy to spot!
Yale gradeeaattes:
Joe Biden
Willy Clinton
G.W Bush
My senior year of high school my thermodynamics class had a test a week and threw out the lowest 2 test score. Each test was open book, any book, but there wasn’t enough time to learn during the test. You would get a B if you laid out the equations, put in the correct numbers but did not do any arithmetic.
I also liked classes where you could use a 3x5 card for whatever information you wanted to put on it. You learn a lot when hand lettering at a 2 PT size.
Biden's U of Del, with a Syracuse JD
Clinton's Georgetown, with a Yale JD.
Bush43 is an Eli, Harvard MBA.
Kerry is an Eli, Boston College JD. (I think he bought off the Archbishop to enter the year he did. It was after he lost the November election for US Rep, some 2 months into the semester. And I believe he had some outstanding legal issues that BC overlooked, too.)
She mixed up Milton Friedman with John Maynard Keynes.
That is the economics-major equivalent of a physics major not being familiar with Albert Einstein or Sir Isaac Newton.
I never was good at arithmetic so I made a pact with each class (speaking high school now) that if the problem was correct, it was correct and did not need to be reduced to lowest terms (Etc.) So if the answer was one half and a student wrote 211/422, that was correct. I would also accept 0.5
I tried to use this to teach that numbers in different forms were alike in value. Of course they had to get the sign right if the answer was negative.
This also meant that I had to be alert for these issues when grading. Also, if a formula was correct but not simplified, (unless the problem was to simplify) I would take the answer as correct. So if the answer was tan x, I would accept (Sin x/ Cos x)
The idea of a cheat sheet is good too, but I usually allowed all pages as long as homework was on some of the pages. In my classes you could not get above a C grade if your homework score was zero. And sometimes homework counted so much that the best you could do with no homework would be a D.
He is the reason our American government and businesses felt the need to expand into trade with China, our abject enemy.
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