[OT] [Media] The Imminent Death of Critical Thinking

I think this article is worth a read as the author hits on some of the
issues that are sore points amongst the veterans of this group.

http://www.itworldcanada.com/Pages/D...=idgml-1023027
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Brian

Specifically: "It's made worse by a teaching system that
defines success strictly based on marks, marks too often
derived from a series of multiple choice tests that
encourage students to gorge themselves with non-contextual
data, tick off the right box, and then dump everything
they've memorized before the next non-contextual, multiple-
choice exam. "

Sound familiar?
>-----Original Message-----
>I think this article is worth a read as the author hits
on some of the
>issues that are sore points amongst the veterans of this
group.
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>http://www.itworldcanada.com/Pages/D...iewArticle.asp
x?ID=idgml-1023027
>6-bb69-49dd-a09c-07d67dd8735f
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molsonexpert

"molsonexpert" <> wrote in
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> Sound familiar?

answer is B

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Neil MCNGP #30
"you'd do what, to who, for how many biscuits?"

Neil

Neil opined, On 4/20/04 1:01 PM:

> "molsonexpert" <> wrote in
> news:1bdb01c42711$49a78860$:
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>>Sound familiar?
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> answer is B
>

No it isn't

JaR

Yeah, cause I have to critique people's essays

Thats why I'm in IT

Brian wrote:
> In additionally, I liked this part:
>
> And then I hear that the universities are giving up on take-home papers and
> essays because plagiarism is running rampant, and because students can too
> easily copy assignments off of the Internet.
>
> Give up? Not me: my students get marked on presentations in class and
> sometimes in-class (non-multiple choice) exams - and I assign 'em research
> on very specific areas that are tough to plagiarize. And I make 'em stand
> and deliver on their papers - present, defend, and critique the work of
> others - all of the things that I expect them to be able to do when they get
> out in the working world.
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Kat

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Kat