[ExI] I don't understand students: help !

Eschatoon Magic eschatoon at gmail.com
Wed Dec 17 09:07:53 UTC 2008


Take example from Indiana Jones - perhaps she just wants to grab your
attention;-)

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 6:49 AM, giovanni santost
<santostasigio at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> What is happening with students ??
> I passed this girl with a C in an Astronomy for non-science majors class.
> She calls me on my cell, demanding a B, saying she will go to the Dean if
> not satisfied.
> She struggled all the semester and she is barely literate. She had problems
> in understanding 1.6 *10 =16. Seriously.
> I was trying to be nice and I passed her with a decent grade.
> When I went back and I looked more carefully at her assignment I discovered
> that on 119 lines of her final paper worth 15 % of her grade 115 lines were
> copied from the internet word by word.
> The other 4 didn't make sense and they were full of grammatical errors.
> She did quote 105 lines but the remaining 14, that she claimed to be her own
> (how somebody can think to write a paper with about 10 % being their "own
> work "is another wonder of the Universe) are also word by word  copied but
> not quoted.
> She is fighting with me claiming I never mentioned they could not paste and
> copy to do their semester project and that she didn't do anything wrong. She
> want to go and debate this with my superiors.
> What is going on in the minds of these students?
> She is not the only one with this sense of the entitlement and reckless
> arrogance.
>
>
> --- On Tue, 12/16/08, Damien Broderick <thespike at satx.rr.com> wrote:
>
> From: Damien Broderick <thespike at satx.rr.com>
> Subject: Re: [ExI] FakeAlert and Virtumonde
> To: "ExI chat list" <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
> Date: Tuesday, December 16, 2008, 10:05 PM
>
> At 11:40 PM 12/16/2008 +0000, BillK wrote:
>
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>
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> advice,
> sir!
>
> Damien Broderick
>
>
>
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