Daily Archives: 2021-03-11

Source: Hacker News

Source: Boing Boing

This Twitter thread is wild. Read the text below, or, tl;dr for spoilers —

The 8-year-old figured out how to temporarily lock the account by entering enough wrong passwords, and did that every time she got bored in class. It took them 3 weeks to figure it out. — Read the rest

Source: Inside Higher Ed (news)

My feed plumbing keeps eating my notes on this one?

So:

• Cheating? Oh yeah, we're worried because we keep seeing it. I've had several little shits screen-share me for help/to get signed off for something with the Chegg tabs where they copied from visible.
• Remote labs: I've been involved in a bunch of variations over the last couple semesters. Most successful have been the in-person modded for individual labs (Now that we've done the experiment, we're probably never going back to lab partners because the more/richer labs aren't worth the parasitism) for a logic lab (~Half breadboarding/~Half Verilog on a dev board), and having students buy a dev board then holding online lab times where we can advise, help, and sign off via MS Teams (other tools have not been as successful) for embedded systems. We did lose some hardware practice in the Embedded class that we'll eventually transition back to primarily in-person to regain. I believe a 2nd semester programming and 2nd semester analog circuits lab are both trying our Teams setup this semester because it worked unusually well.
• "Don't know how to find online resources…" - If you're getting your online learning resources in a package from a publisher, you're ripping your students off. Add more value than being able to rubber-stamp what they taught themselves from internet resources, or also bought the answers to from the internet.