Sorry if this is the wrong subforum for this thread, I wasn't sure whether it belonged in incidents or feedback.
Recently I've seen a LOT of students attempting to give lessons to each other. Given the recent temp server merge, I've been able to see exactly what goes on at school whenever I'm on build, and it's been kind of disturbing. From what I've seen, there appears to be a students hierarchy where some of them have gone far enough into our redstone 'curriculum' that they feel validated to teach other, newer, students concepts that they potentially don't understand completely themselves.
Only last night, I witnessed a lesson being given from student P to student Q. Student Q had recently gotten his rank that day, I should add. There were teachers on (myself included, I actually pride myself on my adder/ALU lessons more than most of my actual builds), but instead student P jumped in and began to teach student Q 'adder'. Not 'about RCA adders, the simplest addition algorithm', but simply 'about adder'. This is a problem in itself, but listening to the lesson in chat myself it appeared very vague. Were I student Q I would not have learned much from it myself, and in that case I certainly believe the other student himself would not come out of a lesson with any understanding other than the rote knowledge of that exact adder design. After the lesson was done, without giving student Q a break or a chance to ask questions (which is essential), student P jumped right into a subtractor lesson (teaching ones' complement before two's complement for some unfathomable reason). This entire scenario is one I see disturbingly frequently, and is counter-counterproductive to the ideals of the school server.
To note here: We don't just let members teach. We have a specific rank that requires community trust and prior teaching ability to obtain that gives even a MEMBER the opportunity to teach. And in some cases, as Nickster has pointed out, even some teachers have been lacking! (Although I've never seen this happen, but that's for a different thread). If this is the case, then it's even worse to have students teaching each other. As a hopefully dedicated-teacher-to-be once some order is restored on the server, I think this should be included as a server rule or guideline for students.
Thank you for reading.
-Ice
Addendum: I don't want to handle this with a poll, since I'm not exactly sure what measures should be taken. But I do believe that we need to do something.
Recently I've seen a LOT of students attempting to give lessons to each other. Given the recent temp server merge, I've been able to see exactly what goes on at school whenever I'm on build, and it's been kind of disturbing. From what I've seen, there appears to be a students hierarchy where some of them have gone far enough into our redstone 'curriculum' that they feel validated to teach other, newer, students concepts that they potentially don't understand completely themselves.
Only last night, I witnessed a lesson being given from student P to student Q. Student Q had recently gotten his rank that day, I should add. There were teachers on (myself included, I actually pride myself on my adder/ALU lessons more than most of my actual builds), but instead student P jumped in and began to teach student Q 'adder'. Not 'about RCA adders, the simplest addition algorithm', but simply 'about adder'. This is a problem in itself, but listening to the lesson in chat myself it appeared very vague. Were I student Q I would not have learned much from it myself, and in that case I certainly believe the other student himself would not come out of a lesson with any understanding other than the rote knowledge of that exact adder design. After the lesson was done, without giving student Q a break or a chance to ask questions (which is essential), student P jumped right into a subtractor lesson (teaching ones' complement before two's complement for some unfathomable reason). This entire scenario is one I see disturbingly frequently, and is counter-counterproductive to the ideals of the school server.
To note here: We don't just let members teach. We have a specific rank that requires community trust and prior teaching ability to obtain that gives even a MEMBER the opportunity to teach. And in some cases, as Nickster has pointed out, even some teachers have been lacking! (Although I've never seen this happen, but that's for a different thread). If this is the case, then it's even worse to have students teaching each other. As a hopefully dedicated-teacher-to-be once some order is restored on the server, I think this should be included as a server rule or guideline for students.
Thank you for reading.
-Ice
Addendum: I don't want to handle this with a poll, since I'm not exactly sure what measures should be taken. But I do believe that we need to do something.
