07-10-2016, 01:02 PM
The motivation of this change seems to be to get students become more creative in their trial. I can totally understand the staff intention, because trialing transformed into a "building a 4-bit ALU" video in slow motion.
However, making the staff responsible for what is acceptable and what not won't change the students mentality on what to build. An ALU is still a demonstration of logical and arithmetic knowledge and there is no reason to say it wouldn't be sufficient enough if the student can explain it properly. That said I don't think we will see a change in students building behaviour with that change.
Newomasters idea is more promising. The idea of the student "impressing" the tester induces creativity in the student, because everyone built a RCA ALU so that won't be enough to impress a tester. But what would be enough?
Each staff member would think differently on that. We'll see if that will turn out in a big problem after inspecting some trials, but it would change something for sure.
The current changes, though, won't do, because it won't change the students bulding behaviour. This issue must be changed by a change of our education system as PNWMan already said.
> https://forum.openredstone.org/showthread.php?tid=10263
However, making the staff responsible for what is acceptable and what not won't change the students mentality on what to build. An ALU is still a demonstration of logical and arithmetic knowledge and there is no reason to say it wouldn't be sufficient enough if the student can explain it properly. That said I don't think we will see a change in students building behaviour with that change.
Newomasters idea is more promising. The idea of the student "impressing" the tester induces creativity in the student, because everyone built a RCA ALU so that won't be enough to impress a tester. But what would be enough?
Each staff member would think differently on that. We'll see if that will turn out in a big problem after inspecting some trials, but it would change something for sure.
The current changes, though, won't do, because it won't change the students bulding behaviour. This issue must be changed by a change of our education system as PNWMan already said.
> https://forum.openredstone.org/showthread.php?tid=10263