Bazza Posted September 25, 2020 Report Share Posted September 25, 2020 Old Man 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted September 28, 2020 Report Share Posted September 28, 2020 tkdguy, Starlord, Pariah and 2 others 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted September 28, 2020 Report Share Posted September 28, 2020 * Cancer starts framing an exam question from that * Pariah and Starlord 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted September 28, 2020 Author Report Share Posted September 28, 2020 * Me too. * Cancer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted September 29, 2020 Report Share Posted September 29, 2020 You 2 know that the kids dont watch old movies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted September 29, 2020 Author Report Share Posted September 29, 2020 The Princes Bride is a cultural phenomenon around here. For high school kids not to be at least aware of it would be, well, inconceivable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted September 29, 2020 Report Share Posted September 29, 2020 Some kids don't recognize the old Star Wars movies. Today I compared the moon Mimas to the Death Star, and my student didn't quite get it at first. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted September 29, 2020 Report Share Posted September 29, 2020 14 hours ago, Badger said: You 2 know that the kids dont watch old movies. They sneer at me for not knowing or caring about the most recent singing-nymphet-of-the-week or other pop culture du jour. My revenge for that I take in my way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted September 29, 2020 Report Share Posted September 29, 2020 From an email that is my response to the brand new faculty colleague asking for exam-writing advice: Quote Make sure to include at least one "Derive a relation for ..." problem on every exam. Way too many of these kids immediately reach for their calculators (and I mean that quite literally). You will not be able to break them of this habit, but it is a noble quest we cannot refuse. Logan D. Hurricanes and Pariah 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted September 30, 2020 Report Share Posted September 30, 2020 On 9/28/2020 at 10:09 AM, Logan.1179 said: OK, for more time wasting that isn't a threat, go try https://phet.colorado.edu/sims/cheerpj/electric-hockey/latest/electric-hockey.html?simulation=electric-hockey Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted September 30, 2020 Report Share Posted September 30, 2020 10 hours ago, Cancer said: They sneer at me for not knowing or caring about the most recent singing-nymphet-of-the-week or other pop culture du jour. My revenge for that I take in my way. Is it still Britney Spears. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted September 30, 2020 Author Report Share Posted September 30, 2020 1 hour ago, Cancer said: OK, for more time wasting that isn't a threat, go try https://phet.colorado.edu/sims/cheerpj/electric-hockey/latest/electric-hockey.html?simulation=electric-hockey In light of the fact that we are on distance learning for the next week and a half, I have my first year physics students playing with PHeT this week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted September 30, 2020 Report Share Posted September 30, 2020 No Kerbal? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted September 30, 2020 Author Report Share Posted September 30, 2020 I'm unfamiliar. Hrmmm. Must investigate further. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted September 30, 2020 Report Share Posted September 30, 2020 Of old, Electric Field Hockey had more bells and whistles in it, including IIRC the option to draw equipotential contours around your charges. I desperately wish that functionality still existed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted September 30, 2020 Report Share Posted September 30, 2020 Some of these are really good. 16 teachers share the most memorable ways they’ve caught students cheating. https://www.someecards.com/news/news/16-teachers-share-most-memorable-ways-caught-students-cheating/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted September 30, 2020 Author Report Share Posted September 30, 2020 A couple of years ago I gave an online final exam* consisting of 50 multiple choice questions covering the whole year's material. Just before posting it, I went over it to make sure there were no errors, typos, that kind of thing. It took me about 15 minutes to check it. Lo and behold, I'm looking at the responses a few days later and I see about a dozen students who have perfect or near-perfect scores...and test times of 7 minutes or less. What a smart bunch of students I must have! They completed the test in half the time it took me to do it. And I wrote it! I sent them all notifications of the zeroes they were getting for academic dishonesty. Most of them fessed up, and I gave them an opportunity to take an alternate final exam for most of the credit. But one kid, who was a complete PITA from day one, sent me back an e-mail at 3 in the morning saying, "You can't give me a zero just because you think I may have cheated." When I read it the following morning, I typed, "Oh, I believe you'll find that I can do exactly that" in response. Then I deleted that and replaced it with, "If you have another explanation, I'd love to hear it" before sending off my response. He got a zero. -- *I gave the Final in two parts that year: the multiple choice portion online, and the problem-solving portion in class. tkdguy and Michael Hopcroft 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 1, 2020 Report Share Posted October 1, 2020 I think my most interesting one was the student who submitted a Moon observing lab, and when it came time to grade it, it seemed to have been done properly ... except the dates of the observations were given as before the start of the quarter, that is, before the student had the assignment and knew what they were supposed to be doing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlord Posted October 1, 2020 Report Share Posted October 1, 2020 https://bit.ly/2EJrqIR This is a survey for my wife's engineering students. They are designing and constructing a board game. Responses are greatly appreciated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted October 1, 2020 Report Share Posted October 1, 2020 2 hours ago, Starlord said: https://bit.ly/2EJrqIR This is a survey for my wife's engineering students. They are designing and constructing a board game. Responses are greatly appreciated. I have submitted. Starlord 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 1, 2020 Report Share Posted October 1, 2020 Grognards unite! Responded. Starlord 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 1, 2020 Report Share Posted October 1, 2020 ... admittedly, perhaps incoherently. Starlord 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archer Posted October 4, 2020 Report Share Posted October 4, 2020 A student says to the teacher, "You only teach useless crap." The teacher thinks, "Hey, there's no need to be so hard on yourself." The teacher replies, "All this information will be useful later in life." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 4, 2020 Report Share Posted October 4, 2020 Students these days have difficulty distinguishing direct objects from indirect objects. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted October 4, 2020 Report Share Posted October 4, 2020 Slap them in the head and ask if it was a direct or I indirect hit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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