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Zeb_Larson , to random
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One of the most tired genres of academic posting is complaining about your students. A lot of it is mean-spirited (how dare these kids not treat my exact passion with the seriousness I did!), but a lot of it is also just fucking lazy. Congrats, as a trained expert in your field you managed to nitpick a freshman to death, or discovered that they (gasp) skipped a reading.

antares ,
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@seanbala

This is why I keep harping on reinvigorating career specific technical training. Most students will be better prepared for a job in their field after 18 months of focused training by professional trainers than by 4 years of random courses taught by people who would rather do research anyway. Our post WWII history ended up sending far too high a proportion of people to 4-year universities.

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antares , to academicchatter
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I wan to make a request to : When you design labs please design some (most) without step-by-step instructions. The chances of your students needing pipette skills in 10 years is remote. What will serve most student better will be the ability to identify a problem, design and experiment that might explain that problem, setup and run that experiment, then interpret the results. Perhaps followed up by design a second experiment if the first didn't help.

Save the "follow the recipe" skills for home ec. The most important thing you can teach your student at any level is experimental design.

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