[Air-L] TorontoStar: Facebook : The New Study Hall For TheWired Generation? Perhaps Not [:-(

[Dr. Steve Eskow]

<<These types of stories piss me off.

He isn't facing charges of academic misconduct for helping run an online
chemistry study group via Facebook!

He is facing expulsion because he facilitated the swapping of tips on
homework questions that counted for 10 per cent of the final mark!>>

Perhaps Ryerson, and all of us, ought to look again at academic practices,
including homework for  10 per cent of the final mark, which discourage
collaboration. This kind of mathematizing learning--so many points for this,
so few for that--might be candidates for the dustbin of pedagogy.

<<He could have (and many do) run a Facebook study group that does not
involve colluding on the answers and been applauded.>>


Marj>>

Steve Eskow




Dr Marjorie Kibby, 
Senior Lecturer in Communication & Culture
Faculty of Education and Arts
The University of Newcastle,  Callaghan NSW 2308 Australia
Marj.Kibby at newcastle.edu.au
+61 2 49216604
>>> Gerry Mckiernan <gerrymck at iastate.edu> 03/08/08 8:32 AM >>>
***Apologies for Receipt of Duplicate Postings***

Friends/

Disturbing, Very Disturbing ... [:-(

/Gerry

Student faces Facebook consequences

Freshman hit with 147 academic charges for online study network at Ryerson
University

Ryerson student Chris Avenir is facing expulsion for taking part in a
Facebook study group for one of his engineering courses. 


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