Posted on 01/27/2020 8:39:01 AM PST by C19fan
My wife would give a quiz with one question as soon as the class bell rang. Papers were collected one minute later.
No tracking, and no attendance - as that would RAYCESS!!
If a student can learn the material without attending, why make them waste their time in class?
> What if a friend takes your smart phone into the classroom for you? <
Good point. In fact, this could turn into a little cottage industry.
Don’t have the time or the interest to go to class? No problem! Just hire someone from our team to take your phone to class for you.
P.S. We suggest that your classroom phone be an old model. That way you can still text away on your real phone while class is in session.
Exactly! When my oldest daughter was 13 she wanted me to get her a cell phone so I could call her and tell her when to come home. I bought her a watch and told her what time to be home and she could suffer the consequences if she were late.
I would go to classes just long enough to figure out if the teacher just taught from the book, or had stuff outside of the book. If he only taught from the book, I basically just showed up for the tests, and I got A’s in every class that I did it.
The program will be promptly discontinued, that is if someone points out the facts. Can’t show any disparities based on race, you know.
I don’t get this, in the lower grades,public schools, revenue depends on student attendance but in colleges and universities they get their money from the students up front so what do they care if no one shows up? It’s actually cheaper for them. Maybe some profs are fudging attendance rolls so that they keep their phony baloney jobs?
What, isn’t there a Cliff’s Notes for Marxism 101 yet?
I guess administrators at this school are fascists who never read the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. No wonder the school has shrinking enrollments. Show me why anyone would go there.
unbelievable ... talk about your “1984” Big Brother ... of course, this level of surveillance is easy to defeat by having more than one smart phone and having the one with the tracking app carried by others into the classroom ... which means that the only bullet-proof way to track these students is to chip them with an RFID chip ... sort of like with pets ...
The quiz on the previous lesson would be a better idea.
“When I was a student at university i was smart enough to never register my car with the university so that when I graduated the school couldn’t hold my diploma to demand payment of their bogus parking tickets issued to me by the campus police.”
As Sam Kinison told Rodney Dangerfield in “Back to School”: “I like the way you think!” ...
I strategically placed my parking pass in an area that was naturally snow covered most of the winter. Most of the time I parked in the staff parking lot. Never got a ticket.
When I was in school many of the profs didn’t care if you showed up or not, except for scheduled tests. Not their problem.
Will they buy you a phone?
“One of the students who never bothered showing up to class missed the mid-term. He came to me wanting to have a make up. I told him hell no as I announced the date of mid-term each class for several weeks before.”
As a TA getting my MS in CS, myself and the Prof I TAed for heard every excuse in the book. (I also was propositioned by a female student who wanted to exchange sex for an automatic A in my course, but I turned her down because she was only a Grade C looker at best, so she dropped my class and moved on to the next TA [true story].
the class was Fortran 101 for the masses, and i was a hotshot programmer/analyst, so i designed and implemented an automatic grading program in which programming assignments were submitted to the grading system, which inputted different datasets each time to the student programs, and compared the output of the programs to the correctly computed answers and assigned a grade based on how many cases were correct.
Students got ALL of the programming assignments at the beginning of the semester, and each assignment had an automatic submission cutoff date programmed into the automatic grader that applied to ALL students and could only be changed for all students at once. Students got a fixed number of tries for each assignment.
The Prof LOVED the system because it pretty much stopped all the whining excuses, and I loved it because it relieved me of the tedium of grading hundreds of programming assignments. In fact, the Prof relieved of TA duties for one semester to develop and test the automatic programming system ...
What year? Someone I know would have been there in about 1982. Near as I can figure, would have gotten undergrad degree in 1981.
“The quiz on the previous lesson would be a better idea.”
that’s actually what i did IN my classroom, namely a quiz at the end of the week that tested what was taught earlier in the week ... my stated goal to my students was that what i was teaching them was to prepare them to pass the quiz ...
(their total semester grade was made up of the grades from the quizzes, grades from the programming assignments, and the midterm and final exams administered too all of the students by the course Prof) ...
So will there be a database that is archived and used to support he said she said situations or supposed hate crimes?
they just want to ensure the students are participating in their after school antifa programs...
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