So I don't go to a traditional school, I go to a school where it's a physical location but they give you a chromebook and all the course material is online but you are in a classroom and you submit your work through Google Docs. So it's like kind of a mix.
My school has said before that taking notes and taking quizzes based on what you learned (like most online schools do) "teaches you nothing and is just memorizing useless information", so they have always required us to do research, show work, etc.
So for example, in a history class, one of the assignments might be to do some research on a war or someone important to history and make a 3 page essay on it. Then at the end of the unit, you'll need to write an essay explaining in your own words everything that's you learned in the unit and show that you learned it and understand the concept.
In a math class, you'll be taught a concept and then be told to make 15 examples using that concept and explain step by step how to do every single example.
Well, that brings me to change. Like all schools, my school was closed for MLK Day. During this break, I spent that time doing a research assignment for a history class. I come back to school today to submit that assignment and CHANGE.
So I go to submit it and notice all of my classes have been completely redesigned. My percentage of the course complete is the same but I go to submit that research assignment and it's been completely replaced by "Lecture and Notes — In this Assignment, you will be listening to a lecture on a panorama and taking notes. You can take notes either digitally via Google Docs or on paper physically. You can use these notes on the final test for the module." And the essay at the end of each unit that shows what you learned is now a test where you can use open notes on!
For math, there is now examples you take notes on and you take a test afterwards and are allowed to use an advanced calculator built into the course.
Everything seems simplified and it's completely contradictory because of how the school said that teaches you nothing. So why did they change to a system they don't believe in?
My school has said before that taking notes and taking quizzes based on what you learned (like most online schools do) "teaches you nothing and is just memorizing useless information", so they have always required us to do research, show work, etc.
So for example, in a history class, one of the assignments might be to do some research on a war or someone important to history and make a 3 page essay on it. Then at the end of the unit, you'll need to write an essay explaining in your own words everything that's you learned in the unit and show that you learned it and understand the concept.
In a math class, you'll be taught a concept and then be told to make 15 examples using that concept and explain step by step how to do every single example.
Well, that brings me to change. Like all schools, my school was closed for MLK Day. During this break, I spent that time doing a research assignment for a history class. I come back to school today to submit that assignment and CHANGE.
So I go to submit it and notice all of my classes have been completely redesigned. My percentage of the course complete is the same but I go to submit that research assignment and it's been completely replaced by "Lecture and Notes — In this Assignment, you will be listening to a lecture on a panorama and taking notes. You can take notes either digitally via Google Docs or on paper physically. You can use these notes on the final test for the module." And the essay at the end of each unit that shows what you learned is now a test where you can use open notes on!
For math, there is now examples you take notes on and you take a test afterwards and are allowed to use an advanced calculator built into the course.
Everything seems simplified and it's completely contradictory because of how the school said that teaches you nothing. So why did they change to a system they don't believe in?
