After a week of letting my stat kids have the computers out during class, I'm more or less satisfied with the experiment. Goodness knows one can goof off in class without technology. I've rearranged my room to give me space to walk behind the kids when I need to. And I've done a test on moodle. And it worked. It was easy to grade (would be easier if I figured out how to use the group feature) and easy to manage. I suspect cheating was not worse than any other time. And my kids did no worse than on pencil and paper. My little Luddite's comment was "none of my other teachers make me do this" - but he and I have done a class before, so he should have known that "no one else does this" isn't a good argument with Mrs. Rice - whose attitude is "wow, let's give this a try".
So we are at the Christmas break. I have one more section of precal test to grade (and a unit to do for stat), but we are half way home. The finals are done and ready, the solstice is past and we've got a whole new year coming up.
Janet Rice
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