Wolfram Alpha Is Making It Extremely Easy for Students to Cheat

Re:Wolfram Alpha Is Making It Extremely Easy for Students to... by posterboy on Saturday July 08, 2017 @06:20AM (#14724873)

> A strawman who clearly doesn't actually understand how computers work

Fixed that for you. I had good informatics teachers 10 years ago.

> quantitative reasoning

As in complexity of sorting functions? We did that, non-rigorously.

I just don't see how, say, meiosis and mitoses or vulkanism are any more mandatory to learn than e.g. Codd's normal forms or the workings of an ALU.

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Re:Wolfram Alpha Is Making It Extremely Easy for Students to... by btilly on Monday July 10, 2017 @12:48PM (#14737574)

I described what I actually witnessed happening to my children in supposedly good California schools. It fits a pattern that has been frequently seen over a long time with a variety of technical subjects that were pushed to schools, starting with the New Math debacle back in the 50s and 60s.

I'm glad that you personally had a better experience. I believe that I described something closer to what we should expect to happen with such initiatives.

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