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

[Peter Timusk]

If the professor had managed the group it would have been considered  
using the internet in teaching with no news article.

now some other thoughts worth a little less.

As a TA there is a basic ethics question here that should be obscured  
by the internet.

Also yes students need help and they should be encouraged to learn  
math together.

all we say in my classes is you must hand in your own work you can do  
math together.

Peter

On 7-Mar-08, at 7:36 PM, Dr. Steve Eskow wrote:

>
>
>
>
> <<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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