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Genre: Education
Date of upload: Jun 25, 2021 ^^
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Thanks for sharing your experience. I prefer to the British system. I can have lots of ungraded practice all over the year. If I make any mistake in the intermediate assignments, my final grades are not affected. Making mistakes during learning is expected. In the US system, one will be punished by grades if he/she makes a mistake during these intermediate assignments. It is difficult for me not to make mistake during the learning process. It makes the "actual learning" very stressful. In the US system, I am kept stressful all over the year. In the British system, I can relax and learn. The stress only comes at the end of the year. I learn better under the British system.
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This reminds me of a gutting story about the importance of learning vs just getting the grade. During a 2 year Associates program for IT and networking, I was in class with this guy. We ended up taking our finals together in the 3rd semester. The final was a long multiple choice test, then a hands-on lab portion where we would set up a network on actually computers, switches, and routers.
When we got started, the very first thing we had to do was subnet the network based on the specifications. Basically, just do some quick math to determine how to split up the network based on how many users there were. This was something we learned the very first week in our 1st semester and we typically did a practice problem every single day of lecture for the next year and a half. The guy asked the instructor if he could use his laptop, but the instructor told him that he had to get his subnetting checked before he could start doing anything on the computer. The guy had to stand up and hand in a blank test because he didn't learn how to subnet. He had been using a subnetting calculator just so he could get through the assignments instead of learning them.
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The ending of this I found fantastic. Really gives you an alternative perspective and motivation to study your subjects more in depth. Again building onto this mindset of studying being a positive outside of the academic benefits of it, like when you categorised preparation and studying for classes as a form of self care. Brilliant channel.
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Doing well in school just seems halfway pointless. You get an evaluation that's supposed to measure what you've learnt over the course of your educationāa gradeābut in the current system the entire point of the course becomes to get a grade. Learning is not even a function of the modern system, and if I wanted to learn, I would've dropped out of school ages ago. The only reason I'm going to school is because (1) it's legally required, and (2) because without the funny piece of paper that certifies my worth to "employers", I'm unemployable and condemned to a life of minimum wage. Be damned whatever you've learnt outside of the system.
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When I taught sophomore level courses at our local community college I noticed that my students could not have passed the courses I took in college during the 1960s. This phenomenon was so obvious that it was a topic of discussion among the faculty.
The students were smart enough. What they lacked was the knowledge of how to study and how to learn. I was stunned at first. I could not get the students to function according to the way I had, where the majority of my grade in each course came from the end of semester final.
I relented and structured my courses very tightly making lecture, coursework, and exams conform to the studentsā textbooks with weekly assignments that kept the students focused and moving throughout the semester. I called it āGrade 13ā.
Yes. Grade creep is real. Their As in the college courses I taught did not mean the same thing as my As in the college courses I had taken 40 years before.
Why submit? I enjoyed teaching and sharing my discipline with others so I wanted to continue to receive assignments, but our Dean made it perfectly clear that āthe customer is always rightā ā we were to keep our students happy enough to keep signing up for the collegeās classes.
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1 year ago
I'm sorta burned out and haven't studied in months despite knowing that I have a mountain of textbooks left to clear in my medical journey, watching you speak just reminds me of the love I have for studying, these videos are giving me my groove back and I'm truly grateful. Bless you sir...
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