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televisi
20/08/2008 11:53 PM
I suspect this method only make young people lazy to memorize and use their analytical brain...as everything is a matter of "google-search"
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antemeridiem
29/08/2008 12:08 PM
I agree... it'll make kids lazy and won't solve the problem of cheating. If kids want to cheat, they will. Like the days gone by, kids can cheat by finding out what the exam questions are before the exam and pre-fabricate their answers and podcast them. This is not hard to do. I guess we want our kids to grow up like robots and not really analyse anything.
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Year_11_Student
31/08/2008 07:59 AM
What Utter Nonsense. This is a totally ridiculous idea. If students are not taught to remember information, analyse it and then write about it then they shouldnt be going to school at all! Also, what happens when they sit the HSC? The board of studies isnt going to just let them just look up all the information needed in the exam during it.
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scotty134
02/09/2008 10:10 PM
As long as this is only one component of assessment I think this is a fantastic idea. Not only is the logic behind allowing it rock solid, it provides insight into a previously un-examable skill - the ability to gather information.
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timmy
06/09/2008 07:49 PM
lol good idea but if the teachers vandelise wikipedia a bit half of them wil fail also if they become dependent on google then google will take over the world
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