Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS 🔥 @peterdrake@social.cleverlibre.org
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CS professor, game designer, and fire dancer ordinaire.
Joined Aug 2018
@educoder I'm not asking about the criteria.
I'm asking whether I should tell them what number I gave them on each assignment.
@chiasm Yes. Aside from any complaints about Kids These Days feeling entitled, there is a mindset that there is a standard of perfection (how many points are available) and your grade is a reflection of the degree to which you failed to attain it. The most you can hope for is to make a sufficiently small number of mistakes. This is ... not good for morale.
I'm doing #ungrading again.
Because I can't realistically keep a sense of the progress of each of 50+ students in my head, I give a number for each assignment:
0: Turned in nothing or a blank document.
1: Significantly incomplete.
2: Basically complete. For programming assignments, passes all unit tests.
3: Above and beyond -- perhaps tackled an optional challenge problem.
Several 0s and 1s indicate a problem to be addressed. 2 is by far the most common result. If a student wants to argue for an A, they should have a few 3s.
**The question: should I show these numbers to the students?**
Pro: It give them a sense of how they're doing, and therefore how much energy they need to allocate to this class.
Con: They will look at the number, think of it as a "grade", and pay no attention to written feedback.
Thoughts?
@obi Godzilla (2014). It's in the alt text, which you can see by hovering your mouse over the gif.
@venzann Maybe the iodine?
On a related note, non-iodized salt is the only product I've ever seen labeled with a warning that it *doesn't* contain something.
Kickin' it old school with our heirloom handmade Aggravation board. #BoardGamesAToZ #BoardGames
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Tech kvetch
I'm giving students permission to register for my class even though it's over the original capacity. We (barely) have enough room to squeeze these nine more into the lab, so that's not a problem.
Using our (fortunately soon-to-be-replaced) system, each one requires FIFTEEN mouse clicks or hotkey presses.
No, there is no way to do this in bulk.
Am I spending longer complaining about it than the actual task will take? Sure. BUT STILL.
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💔 RIP Ken Block, killed yesterday in a snowmobile accident. His Gymkhana Five is one of the greatest videos showing off the sights and streets of San Francisco.
https://youtu.be/LuDN2bCIyus
#KenBlock #Gymkhana #GymkhanaFive #Gymkhana5 #StreetsOfSanFrancisco #Hoonigan #drift
@RecursiveNeuron That looks like a bit of syntatic sugar that might cause more pain than it relieves.
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🌀What is wrong with the following python code snippet
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l =["c"
"py",
"js"
]
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We missed the comma after "c". The python will concatenate it with py. Resulting in ["cpy","js"].
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If anyone remembers how to work let me know, I forgot
#Violet is once again asking you to just stay in bed. #DogsOfMastodon
@freemo @mandaroza @trinsec I would argue for putting it in the "Federating: Silencing & Blocking" section of the about page. As this is easier for new users to find, it does a better job of "providing" the list.
BTW, the end of that section says qoto only silences two servers, but the next section mentions four.
@PamW How often do you do this? Do you condition on days when you don't use shampoo?
- Siva Afi
- https://tgc.link/siva-afi
- Cascadia 9.0
- https://www.cascadia9game.org/
CS professor, game designer, and fire dancer ordinaire.
Joined Aug 2018
