My topic is based off an article on WIRED called Why I Think Students Should Cheat by Cevin Soling. The basis of this article being that students should be allowed to cheat. I agree with the author. Cheating though is unethical or immoral is essential to how we learn and how it applies in our work lives.
If an employee has a project that they are working on and need to know certain information about the subject, where are they going to get the information? Not all humans are created equal or with a completely photographic memory. How are they going to retain that information accurately? The answer is that they won’t or rather can’t. when sending something to the moon it is critical that the information is 150% correct. As a result, not only …show more content…
One of the most important teachings in life and sayings that have been reiterated the most to me is “learn from your mistakes!” Now mistakes can be substituted for the word failures, but I digress. Within school the tests are given and you purge the information that you spent X amount of days, weeks or months saturating your brain with. Now that the test is over you are ready to repeat the cycle because there usually isn’t a “checkpoint.” In video games or even in the real world there are checkpoints. These check points are exactly what they sound like, check points. Points or a certain interval of time to review or check. In my experience it is seldom that there is such a moment after a test or project within school. This should be essential to your learning. This moment should have you pause class for any amount of time to go over how the test went and how the different this time was than the last and how to improve. Many areas in the workforce implement this system. After a project the manager takes time to talk to each employee on what mistakes could be adjusted and how to improve for the “next time.” Many would argue that the teacher would pause and review the responses. Cevin responds perfectly by saying, “When students do poorly on a test, there is no reason for students to review their responses because they will likely never be tested on the same thing ever again.” (Soling pg.1) For example take photosynthesis and the human nervous system into account. Both of these are essential topics within biology, but are also completely different in their own right. You would need no prior knowledge of photosynthesis to better understand the nervous system within human and the same would apply if the situation was switched.
If an employee has a project that they are working on and need to know certain information about the subject, where are they going to get the information? Not all humans are created equal or with a completely photographic memory. How are they going to retain that information accurately? The answer is that they won’t or rather can’t. when sending something to the moon it is critical that the information is 150% correct. As a result, not only …show more content…
One of the most important teachings in life and sayings that have been reiterated the most to me is “learn from your mistakes!” Now mistakes can be substituted for the word failures, but I digress. Within school the tests are given and you purge the information that you spent X amount of days, weeks or months saturating your brain with. Now that the test is over you are ready to repeat the cycle because there usually isn’t a “checkpoint.” In video games or even in the real world there are checkpoints. These check points are exactly what they sound like, check points. Points or a certain interval of time to review or check. In my experience it is seldom that there is such a moment after a test or project within school. This should be essential to your learning. This moment should have you pause class for any amount of time to go over how the test went and how the different this time was than the last and how to improve. Many areas in the workforce implement this system. After a project the manager takes time to talk to each employee on what mistakes could be adjusted and how to improve for the “next time.” Many would argue that the teacher would pause and review the responses. Cevin responds perfectly by saying, “When students do poorly on a test, there is no reason for students to review their responses because they will likely never be tested on the same thing ever again.” (Soling pg.1) For example take photosynthesis and the human nervous system into account. Both of these are essential topics within biology, but are also completely different in their own right. You would need no prior knowledge of photosynthesis to better understand the nervous system within human and the same would apply if the situation was switched.