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Re:What Students Do (And Don't Do) in Khan Academy by VLM on Sunday December 14, 2014 @05:58PM (#8749888)
One sophistry problem is we will "ALL" theoretically take and pass Algebra, so the teacher does not have the luxury of specialized jargon, the teacher MUST be able to present it to the entire general public. A general education teacher is expected to present effectively to the general public as the core of their job, its not a nice to have or wouldn't it be interesting if it were possible.

On the other hand, only maybe 1% of the population has to suffer thru garbage collector theory in CS classes, and of that 1%, maybe only 0.0001% ever implement a GC "in the real world" and can understand that post. There just aren't that many GC programmers and there are a lot of humans in the general public. In that case jargon is perfectly acceptable, even expected. Also the core of a programmers job is rarely making public presentations.

Re:What Students Do (And Don't Do) in Khan Academy by jwmerrill on Sunday December 14, 2014 @06:30PM (#8749979)
I didn't mean that teachers get a pass on opaque vocabulary when they're teaching students. I meant that, just like every other profession, they have a technical vocabulary that they use to discuss their own profession with other teachers.