Student "edition" found at {csi dot journalspace dot com}.

Maybe I shouldn't have started this blog now, not with everything that's been going on.

Just a clarification about what I was talking about in the student accessible version today.

To a teacher who wants to instill in the students the discipline of going to class regularly like what their bosses after graduation would expect them to do, then emphasizing the importance of attendance means not giving them a ready made excuse not to show up.

This is exactly the kind of escape route to laziness that providing hand outs and just echoing what is written in the textbook gives them.

It's not enough to threaten the students with possible failure due to excessive absences. There are people who just show up (maybe for other reasons such as attractive classmates) but whose attention is not on what the teacher is saying.

It's too bad that not all subjects (like graphics or computer lab) can have requirements set out for the students during each meeting, where missing out on a meeting really does mean getting potentially enough zeroes to accumulate a non-passing grade.

Would it be fair to the students to alternate between lectures and quizzes every meeting for the whole term, no long exams?

Another way could be to allow the students access to the additional material only after they show up in class, maybe when they've completed some classroom activity or a minimum number of them.

Maybe classrooms are not the wave of the future anymore, but remote learning is.

This really is a very basic question that has to be analyzed about the technology affording the students a different kind of exposure than what their teachers had when they were young.

There might not really be a way anymore using classical methods to instill in the kids the kind of attitudes the administration believes they will need when they start working.

Session 1867 wants to be educated at their own pace. Class dismissed.