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April 6, 2007
Networks Course Blog
This Cornell Info 204 - Networks class blog is exemplary. It seems that the students scour around for information related to the class and post entries - that are then reviewed by (and commented by) the class and the rest of the world. This is a much better model for an ideas-history-and-paradigms class than handing in homework and essays. I've browsed around it, and the postings describe the myriad applications of network-oriented thinking we can see around.
Posted by Aleks at April 6, 2007 2:16 PM
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Cool. My only problem with this as a teaching method is that it encourages students to spend even more time on the web and less time focusing on things closer at hand. Lord knows I spend too much time on the web myself, and seeing all these ideas is great, but at some point I find it essential to do some data analysis, coding, and thinking offline. With our intro stat courses, we've already had the problem that students just want to download data without understanding where the numbers came from.
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at April 8, 2007 2:16 PM.