"Consumers do not have the knowledge or technical expertise to run Vista in a virtual environment" (Gates) Modded "funny"? Why?
I feel pretty insulted by Mr Gates. That aint' funny!!!
Because there is alot of money going across the board, and taxes aren't paid.
There's already a lot of money crossing borders inside the pockets of US citizen taking holidays abroad!!!
Should't be illegal for US people to visit all those expensive european cities? Hopefully, the Louvre curator will get busted the next time he step an US airport...!
I'm writing from outside USA - but public education issues seem to be pretty much the same across the world.
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You've never taught, have you ? (...) Nobody in his right mind would grade alone, even for money.
I tought for 12 years in high-school and undergraduate college courses, and fully agree with you in one thing: grading sucks!
In the other hand, in many situations I felt that grading my own students was unfair. As a teacher, you have some freedom at designing tests, or even grading the answers. There's always a gap for teachers' own personal criteria, that can be influenced by it's own performance (extremes like "after all... why should I test that hard if I didn't thought that good", or "I said that a zillion times, that mistake CAN'T be forgiven").
I think that independent graders would be a good solution. They don't need to be teachers: standard tests can be equally well designed by field experts (physicians, historians, etc.), and having no involvment with the teaching process can be designed and used in a less emotional way.
Grading isn't an unpleasant job itself. Mixing grading with teaching is.
Even more: that's an unethical mixup. In real sports, coaches don't referee.
A last think: how much our relationship toward students would improve if they stopped seen us as "graders" and just could see us as "facilitators" in aquiring knowledge. That's a job I really would like to have... don't you?
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I feel pretty insulted by Mr Gates. That aint' funny!!!
There's already a lot of money crossing borders inside the pockets of US citizen taking holidays abroad!!!
Should't be illegal for US people to visit all those expensive european cities? Hopefully, the Louvre curator will get busted the next time he step an US airport...!
Touché :)
I'm writing from outside USA - but public education issues seem to be pretty much the same across the world.
You've never taught, have you ? (...) Nobody in his right mind would grade alone, even for money.
I tought for 12 years in high-school and undergraduate college courses, and fully agree with you in one thing: grading sucks!
In the other hand, in many situations I felt that grading my own students was unfair. As a teacher, you have some freedom at designing tests, or even grading the answers. There's always a gap for teachers' own personal criteria, that can be influenced by it's own performance (extremes like "after all... why should I test that hard if I didn't thought that good", or "I said that a zillion times, that mistake CAN'T be forgiven"). I think that independent graders would be a good solution. They don't need to be teachers: standard tests can be equally well designed by field experts (physicians, historians, etc.), and having no involvment with the teaching process can be designed and used in a less emotional way.
Grading isn't an unpleasant job itself. Mixing grading with teaching is.
Even more: that's an unethical mixup. In real sports, coaches don't referee.
A last think: how much our relationship toward students would improve if they stopped seen us as "graders" and just could see us as "facilitators" in aquiring knowledge. That's a job I really would like to have... don't you?