Cancer Posted April 5, 2021 Report Share Posted April 5, 2021 It can be done. Flash of intuition. There's a way to do exactly this. It's a bit more involved than one could hope, but it has exactly that function. 💡 ㊙️ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted April 5, 2021 Author Report Share Posted April 5, 2021 4 hours ago, Cancer said: It can be done. Flash of intuition. There's a way to do exactly this. It's a bit more involved than one could hope, but it has exactly that function. 💡 ㊙️ Question bank? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 5, 2021 Report Share Posted April 5, 2021 I think it's a "question group" (at least when you're creating it for the first time), with as many questions as there are answers in the multiple-choice option list. Each question in the group has a different answer selected as the correct one. For extra confusion, allow Canvas to randomize the order of the multiple-choice options, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted April 5, 2021 Author Report Share Posted April 5, 2021 32 minutes ago, Cancer said: I think it's a "question group" (at least when you're creating it for the first time), with as many questions as there are answers in the multiple-choice option list. Each question in the group has a different answer selected as the correct one. For extra confusion, allow Canvas to randomize the order of the multiple-choice options, too. I discovered that feature myself only in the last few weeks. It's glorious. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 7, 2021 Report Share Posted April 7, 2021 8AM lectures suck, even in the virtual environment. Need puffy eyes-and-face emoji. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted April 7, 2021 Author Report Share Posted April 7, 2021 I mentioned in passing to one of my classes yesterday that Spring Break is the most exhausting week of the year for me. I was quite surprised by their reaction: Agreement. Three or four kids expressed similar sentiments, while about half of the class nodded in silent agreement. I could see the fatigue in one girl's eyes. This was an unexpected outcome, so I brought it up again in a later class. the reaction was almost identical. Apparently a large number of folks are coming back from Spring Break exhausted. I can't help but think that something has gone very badly wrong here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlord Posted April 7, 2021 Report Share Posted April 7, 2021 6 minutes ago, Pariah said: I mentioned in passing to one of my classes yesterday that Spring Break is the most exhausting week of the year for me. I was quite surprised by their reaction: Agreement. Three or four kids expressed similar sentiments, while about half of the class nodded in silent agreement. I could see the fatigue in one girl's eyes. This was an unexpected outcome, so I brought it up again in a later class. the reaction was almost identical. Apparently a large number of folks are coming back from Spring Break exhausted. I can't help but think that something has gone very badly wrong here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 8, 2021 Report Share Posted April 8, 2021 "I teach solar system last when their brains are done. That way I have enough time to cover cosmology" I assume "done" is the "fork comes out no longer bloody" sense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 16, 2021 Report Share Posted April 16, 2021 Man, you'd think these kids never heard of interpolation before. It's been so long that I've forgotten when I picked that up. Is it reasonable these days to expect senior undergrads in life science majors to have heard about interpolation before? Or have the mathophobes who have taken over public school education lobotomized that out of the curriculum also? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted April 16, 2021 Author Report Share Posted April 16, 2021 I teach my students the technique, even if I don't always use that word. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted April 16, 2021 Report Share Posted April 16, 2021 From what I've seen, nobody teaches interpolation anymore. I don't even remember the process myself. Ditto calculating square roots without a calculator. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archer Posted April 16, 2021 Report Share Posted April 16, 2021 On 4/4/2021 at 6:41 PM, Cancer said: So I assigned group work last term and did an after-action survey in which I asked people (among other things) to rat out who contributed nothing to the group. I have a list of miscreants. I'm giving group work again this term. Shall I put all the slackers into their own groups? I am sorely tempted, because I am also doing this trick in the first team assignment as well. I detested group projects in college because of slackers who deliberately contributed nothing. But in one project, we also had a computer programming major who literally couldn't write a complete sentence in English, his native language, when the project was supposed to be written in separate parts by each person (but of course graded for quality as a group). The computer major ended up quitting even coming to our skull sessions. And I had to do all the research for his part of the project, write it, plus develop a distinctive writing style so the teacher wouldn't recognize that someone else in the group did his work for him. Hell yes, put the slackers in their own groups. And if you need to round up one of their groups, add in the least competent person who can't actually do the classwork so some other group isn't punished by having that person on their team. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 17, 2021 Report Share Posted April 17, 2021 It's been done. First group-work project is under way. So far, no contact from the two "bad karma" quartets. archer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted April 17, 2021 Report Share Posted April 17, 2021 One of my college group projects, one of our assessments was a "reflection statement". I think it was maybe 5% of that part of the project, so overall not much, but there to encourage us to do it. It is as the name suggests, a way for us to 'reflect' on the project to date. If one person was slacking off or not contributing, well these reflection statements was the opportunity to do it. In this way, it kept everyone honest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 17, 2021 Report Share Posted April 17, 2021 I did solicit people's opinions last term, and I got a list of people who didn't contribute. There were people who clearly avoided saying adverse things about others; there were some people who explained why they were making the complaint it did. So, we'll see how this works out. The bad karma teams (my label) haven't yet made the contact with me they must make to get data they need. But as of this morning, they were among the half of all teams that haven't. So they have not yet become conspicuously late in getting started. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted April 18, 2021 Report Share Posted April 18, 2021 Enforcer84, Lawnmower Boy and archer 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 18, 2021 Report Share Posted April 18, 2021 https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/a-group-project Lawnmower Boy and Grailknight 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Cancer Posted April 18, 2021 Report Share Posted April 18, 2021 FWIW, I heard from a member of one of the "bad karma teams" yesterday afternoon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted April 18, 2021 Report Share Posted April 18, 2021 6 hours ago, Cancer said: You just explained why I'm mainly a solo act. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archer Posted April 18, 2021 Report Share Posted April 18, 2021 3 hours ago, Cancer said: FWIW, I heard from a member of one of the "bad karma teams" yesterday afternoon. Don't hold out on us. Spill. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 19, 2021 Report Share Posted April 19, 2021 Wasn't a complaint; it was a fairly typical student question for this material. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted April 19, 2021 Report Share Posted April 19, 2021 "Tell us ansvers pls" tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted April 19, 2021 Report Share Posted April 19, 2021 11 hours ago, L. Marcus said: "Tell us ansvers pls" I get that a lot. The other day I saw a video that made me sad. The video itself wasn't sad, but something in there was. The video was posted in 2020. A teenaged girl was told a performance was in 1965 and was asked how long ago that was. She immediately got her phone to find the answer. That's what made me sad. I'm torn between redoubling my efforts and packing it all in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archer Posted April 19, 2021 Report Share Posted April 19, 2021 47 minutes ago, tkdguy said: I get that a lot. The other day I saw a video that made me sad. The video itself wasn't sad, but something in there was. The video was posted in 2020. A teenaged girl was told a performance was in 1965 and was asked how long ago that was. She immediately got her phone to find the answer. That's what made me sad. I'm torn between redoubling my efforts and packing it all in. I had an accounting teacher lo these many decades ago who told me one thing that's stuck with me. He said that if you were the "numbers guy" that you needed to be able to do addition/subtraction in your head plus at least simple multiplication. It'd bewilder all the people who can't do such things and build your credibility in the workplace while dragging out a calculator makes others think "Why are we asking THIS guy? I could pull out a calculator and do it myself." And if you weren't the "numbers guy" you still needed to be able to do addition/subtraction in your head because building your rep as a smart person is a really good thing and makes others more prone to listening to you. tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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