Kyle Owens, Bella B, Jake D, Jenna Schreiber, Jason Gabby, Shawn, Jenna, Sabrina, Cristian Galilea, David Heffron, Joshua Rogers, Muhammad Rabi, Jake Heikkinen, Sean Redding, Tyler E, Nick, Timothy Domanowski, Sam Livorno
This discussion group was very large, and since two people had similar topics we combined into one big group. The topic was about how short cuts that we take actually hurt us in the long run. This was shown by us memorizing in school. We do this so that way we can pass the test, but in the long run this is not effective because we actually do not learn anything. We also talked about how some professors use the same powerpoints year after year to save themselves time. This is not effective because the students are not the same every year. For students this can also be shown by when taking a math test we would much rather plug everything into a calculator and let it do the work. By doing this we are not learning anything other than how to press a button. We also do not have any work shown so if we get the answer wrong we cannot receive any credit. We also would rather ask Google for the answer to our homework problems, then to actually figure it out for ourselves. This does not help us because come time for the exam we do not know how to do complex problems because we cannot ask google. All these examples prove that taking short cuts actually hurts us, rather than helps us.
