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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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You write that and its from the point of view of lecture - 11/09/2009 07:15:21 PM 836 Views
That, my friend, is precisely my point. *NM* - 11/09/2009 07:23:21 PM 415 Views
Appalling. - 11/09/2009 07:16:13 PM 916 Views
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it's still not the same. - 12/09/2009 03:45:10 PM 835 Views
Ignorance. - 15/09/2009 06:08:15 PM 1099 Views
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Your post was beyond stupid. - 15/09/2009 06:01:11 PM 843 Views
Re: Prep School deems books an "outdated technology" - 12/09/2009 01:00:48 PM 959 Views
Some Prep School, and some students, hence "Some Prep School. " - 12/09/2009 02:04:38 PM 878 Views
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