There may be or not be grading, but only you care about grading. That is called intresic motivation (vs extrinsic). You do it for yourselves, not for someone or something else (employer, school, teacher, parents, certification organism).
If you have success, it means learning phase is completed. "I am able to make a small game like ping pong from scratch ?" - evaluate yourselves, test your skills. Is evaluation a part of learning ? It is.
To be clear, evaluation (grading) is what you in job interview and for pilot, to make sure he knows how to fly the plane. And mostly evaluate (grade) memorization and servitude btw, not actual understanding. They are called schools, but behave a lot more like evaluation (grading) centers. The thing is that we believe that school focus on teaching. I also don't care about Pythagore theorem proof, I know it works, that's all I need (all Maths lover will condemn me). Does the student really need to understand the notion by himselves ? For example, I don't know how to use quaternion myself, buy I know how to work with, in Unity. Does the student really need to remember historical dates, or Maths equations, when nowadays he can just google them in 10sec ? (Aka : unnecessary use of memory)Ģ. I agree that, the issue is mostly not the student but the school (and society):ġ. This is similar to taking a library (ex : deep-equal) or framework (nextjs) or service (carrds, netlify) instead of doing it yourselves. In chinese, copying and learning are the same word.Īlso, "cheating" may be viewed as "not re-inventing the wheel" (someone already made the proof for this theorem, just copy paste it from your smartphone), "not doing the same work twice" (your neigboor just solved the equation, why re-solve it ? ), and "using the fastest, most reliable solution" (your neigboor is better than you in Maths, just take his answers). Humans are built to survive by offloading work on each other. I would be stuck in a cave looking for berries if I didn't rely on other people for skills I don't have, every second of the day. Even in performing my actual job, I'm not the sharpest at economics, so I often cross-check my reasoning with other people before going on to spend time on things.
Well there, I don't know how to build refrigerators, but I trust it to keep my lunch safe. I don't know how to pave roads, yet I rely on roads paved by others to even get into work. Granted, I only have a decade or so of full-time work behind me so far, but in all of it, I have been as productive as I have been thanks to the ability to rely on others. I also disagree that you have to learn everything for yourself and stop relying on others. Give them more interesting things to do and they will cooperate in more productive ways too! Humans do something amazing in response: they cooperate to reduce the damage done by the 58th such exercise. It's just that when you throw at them the 57th of the same exercise with some words swapped out, that desire is extinguished a little. In fact, my experience humans basically come out of the womb with a burning desire to learn. And a career spans a long time.Īnd there are ways to engage students in learning. Those that cheat, well, you can fool some people some of the time, but it's a lot of work.
Maybe I don't have the highest paying job, but I'm where I was made to fit, and money can't tempt me away. Sometimes test scores suffered (I didn't actually study for tests) but I got a job (one I still have and love) and 30 years later I'm still applying those fundamentals I learned. This would be our career and we were all in. We gave ourselves extra tasks, read far beyond the textbook, and pushed the envelope. Ditto astronomy.Ĭomp Sci on the other hand consumed all my spare time. But I don't like boats (get seasick) so I've never "used" any of that knowledge. I enjoyed oceanography, I went to class, did the work (mostly) and learned something. The group that focuses on pure learning, and engaging with the material, may not end up with the best marks, but they have a deep understanding, and delight in the subject that will serve them very well over their working career.Įqually though, not all courses are equally useful (to one person). Those that go this approach probably learn stuff along the way as well. One is that those that cram for tests are doing "what the employer requires" and do will make good employees, so the system is working.