Word: blackboarding
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...room atop Lowell House, studying for exams, I take time off to reflect on the generalities and fragments of my educational experience. Reading through my notes--often hasty and incomplete scrawls--I can nonetheless close my eyes and immediately see the attendant lecture on the blackboard before...
Eventually I was ushered into a small room, where I was not only older than all the other test takers but also older than the teacher monitoring the test. A large carving of Jesus hung above the blackboard, and a copy of TIME magazine, in which I'm pretty sure I mentioned masturbating, lay on a desk. I was sure I was going to hell...
What's special about Preuss can be seen in a visit to a ninth-grade geometry class. While teacher Jerry Lederman leads the class from the blackboard, Rachel Ismerio, a 20-year-old psychology major at UCSD, serves as tutor, floating from desk to desk to make sure no one falls behind. And if plotting axis points begins to get dry, the class can turn into a 3-D graphics seminar, with the students using the UCSD supercomputers to create complex designs. Eliana Rucobo, 14, a precocious child of Mexican immigrants, says, "When I first came here, I had doubts...
...Internet allows a student to view from any point in the lecture without wasting time with fast-forward or rewind. Granted, streaming video over the Internet has not yet matched the quality of VHS video. But the sound comes through clear as could be, and the drawings on the blackboard are accurate, even if it is after a few second delay...
...high school class. With the cost of attending school at $35,400 per year, half of us end up paying almost $5,000 for the privilege of falling asleep in Sanders Theatre during lectures or sitting in the back of a crammed section room straining to see the blackboard...