American teachers put students "offsets" for retweets

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Internet appeared a few decades ago, but today's children and teenagers already can hardly imagine life without constant network access. The World Wide Web is firmly enveloped the younger generation and can now replace teenagers not only meeting with the opposite sex and chat with friends, but also for example, education - so, in the United States, the teacher allowed students do not take exams, if they rack up a certain number repost microblogging service Twitter .

It all started with a student of a school in the city of Round Rock (Texas) Andrew Myuenninka who argued with his drawing teacher Cindy House that his class will not have to take exams, if the message Andrew on Twitter for some time attains 15 thousand retweets. Tweet Man on the contract with the teacher instantly went to the top of service and he won the dispute that was the signal to students of schools and colleges to start a large-scale campaign for the release of the exams through retweets.

Dozens of schoolchildren and students, following the example of the enterprising young man, conclude with the teachers of the transaction, with a single rate not - somebody is satisfied with 10,000 retweets and other teachers are willing to close their eyes to just over a million exams. Some educators creative approach to the contract, for example, for 1 thousand retweets allowed to use the summary of the exam, and 5 thousand students are given the right to "automatic».

All this can be considered fun, but what about the deteriorating quality of education, which would entail the distribution of such a system, "exam"? Thousands of retweets, of course, a nice thing, but they do not help students to acquire new knowledge - which is why many managers of colleges and schools have already stated that in spite of any agreement and retweets, their students still need to pass the exams. Could not beat the system of education and Andrew Myuenninku - as stated by Joy Lynn Ochchiutstsi, a spokesman for the school district of Round Rock: "By law, the teacher should assess the ability of the student", besides the official said, the headmaster discussed the dispute with teacher drawing and she claims that the entire contract was initially - no more than a joke. Of course, Myuennink not agree with this, but the young man admits that examination seems to still have to pass.

via factroom.ru

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