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   Xauri'EL Zwaan (xauriel@mastodon.nz)'s status on Sunday, 03-Dec-2023 06:37:00 JST Xauri'EL Zwaan

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   Most high school students want good grades because they want to be done with compulsory schooling because they dislike having to do it, and most university undergrads want good grades to get a credential they can leverage for better job prospects. They behave like this not because they are lazy or mercenary, but because this is how the value of education has been sold to them. They don't want to participate fully in the exercises because actually learning things is beside the point

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     Xauri'EL Zwaan (xauriel@mastodon.nz)'s status on Sunday, 03-Dec-2023 06:37:01 JST Xauri'EL Zwaan

     Hot take: if your students are "cheating", it means they do not see the value of the process of doing the exercise and see value only in the grade they obtain thereby. And if that is the case, at least part of the problem is that you as the teacher (and probably to a larger extent the education system as a whole) have failed to adequately communicate why the exercise is valuable over and above the grade (and more than likely failed to adequately establish that value in the first place)

     carl marks repeated this.