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Friday, November 09, 2001
I want a better content management system! Plagiarism skyrockets by our friend Mark. Well 1% of students certainly isn't a lot but I fear that the number is much higher than that. So why do students cheat? I think the number one reason is that the course requirements are too onerous. And of course cheating doesn't help the situation since you (and everyone else) gets the assignment done and the prof doesn't understand that while everyone did it they all cheated and it just makes things harder/more onerous the next time around. And of course the Internet makes it much easier to cheat. On a recent CS assignment it took two seconds on Google to find the answers for a recent assignemnt. It turns out another university had published the answers to the same questions we had :). So should we then employ technology to detect this kind of cheating? I don't think so. I think instead we have to look at how the Internet is changing the world of education and instead of declaring it off limits bring it into the assignment. If I can get the assignment done in 5 minutes because I've figured out how to operate a search engine should I be punished or rewarded? I know if it was a 'business assignment' my company would reward me for spending 5 minutes on a problem instead of 5 hours.
I wanted to say more but I'm bored of the post already :). Is someone who Googles a Googler? The Globe: Canada 3000 pulls the plug. Shitty, and they've taken Royal Airlines down with them! No more cheap tickets to Winnipeg and New York now that there's no competition on those routes.. Our Sun servers arrived the other day. Don't you wish you had a pair of those for your rackmount at home? :)
I bought more ram for my notebook (512 megs) and so the 256 currently in there are useless.. If you have any need for one or two 128meg 144pin SODIMMs for a notebook (i.e. Dell Insipiron/Lattitude) make me an offer. Wired: 'Tourist Guy': Is He or Isn't He? ..I linked to tourist guy back around Sept 11 but can't find where I did..
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