Right now I am taking a college Chemistry class. As I sit here doing homework, I am thinking how different some college classes are going now, due to advances with electronics and computers. With this class, I am required to turn in ALL assignments as hand written only. This is due to so many people cutting and pasting their work into word, that nothing can be trusted now they feel. Out labs are required to purchase the carbon paper and to write in pen, so that it will show up on the copy page underneath it. For that is the copy we turn in each time. Our professor told us that if our handwriting is not legible for him, than it will not be graded. So press hard, slow down, and write bigger.
Lucky for me, I haven't lost my skill with handwriting, and yes, my assignments take a little more time, as it is faster for me to type. But I find I understand more, as I slow down and write my work out. I do see some classmates, who just graduated from high school, struggle a bit with this, especially during their labs. It's not good when they can't even read their own handwriting.
In addition, I had to buy a cheap calculator to use on my tests. Nothing that can store memory of anything. I guess it's time to go back to the basics again, especially at college.
2 comments:
Wow! I don't think I have heard of a class that extreme. I guess your teacher has been burned a few times in both class and lab.
Good luck!
That is really interesting. I can see how I would retain it better through writing, though. We were just having a similar discussion the other day about why it is important to be able to write legibly. I'll have to show the kids this post to let them know another good reason! Older kids these days aren't even learning to spell as much because of the computer correcting it... and they don't know that LOL, BTW, and THX are not real words. Yea, I can definitely understand this professor's thinking. Good luck!
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