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Student Faces Expulsion for Facebook Study Group
Pickens brings news that a student at Ryerson University is facing 147 counts of academic misconduct after helping to run a chemistry study group through Facebook. School officials have declined to comment, but students are claiming that it is simply a valid studying technique in the information age. Quoting:
"Avenir, 18, faces an expulsion hearing Tuesday before the engineering faculty appeals committee. If he loses that appeal, he can take his case to the university's senate. The incident has sent shock waves through student ranks, says Kim Neale, 26, the student union's advocacy co-ordinator, who will represent Avenir at the hearing. 'That's the worst part; it's creating this culture of fear, where if I post a question about physics homework on my friend's wall (a Facebook bulletin board) and ask if anyone has any ideas how to approach this - and my prof sees this, am I cheating?' said Neale, who has used Facebook study groups herself."
Well, i usually purchased the teacher editions of whatever books we were using. Made it much easier for me.
In the end, the target in reality is to solve a problem with the minimum amountof resources/effort. Solving problems which have already been solved seems kinda pointless to me.
Nevertheless, i only did basic primary and secondary school, i've never studied. Took an apprenticeship. Was much better than school - real skills with real values.
You mean like "studying"?