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And the teachers let them? :confused:

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Wow, people use laptops in class? Isn't that a bit weird? Isn't pen and paper easier anyway? I guess if you have slow/untidy handwriting maybe...or...if you were doing research...or something...but it'd be weird. Do they stay in one particular classroom, or are they the student's own ones, or...

Re: how many units do you plan to do for the hsc? But why should English be compulsory? For the sake of those (poor souls) like Foram, who aren't good at it, you should just make it an elective subject. I mean, every subject has skills which apply to other subjects as well. For English it's...

What if the students provided them? To be sacrificed in the name of science?

Hahaha

But really, if you did it as a demo (I'd imagine you'd have to!) you'd only have to do it once or twice a year (depending on how many classes there are per grade and how many you could get together at once). That'd only be one test tube, and people break test tubes accidentally all the time, it...

Oh, okay then. That's interesting about the year 7 thing (kurt.physics). I have a feeling that we have programs similar to that, except focussing more on breadth in the specific topic than accelerating as such. I wonder which is better, from an educational perspective... Oh well, so much...

Yeah lithium in water rings a bell. I think she did sodium and some other ones too, but I can't remember. I've never heard of magnesium in hot steam, but from my understanding of chemistry I can guess that that would be awesome. What actually happens?

Haha, yes, we just got them either this year or the end of last year. It's really funny because they are kept in the library and whenever a teacher wants to do computer research with the class, they just assume that they don't need to organise to have a computer room and take the class to the...

This isn't so much about acceleration in maths, but it's about acceleration (and I'm too scared to start a new thread). But I've noticed that there are so many students who have accelerated a subject on BOS, some more than others. So I was wondering, is this normal/is it relatively easy to...

Burning stuff we do a lot, especially in biology (my teacher has an obsession with finding out how much energy is in stuff, or something). But exploding stuff? Making stuff suddenly burst into flame? Not so much. If we ever do anything of the sort, it'd be a teacher demo. :( No fun for us...

A friend of mine typed up and formatted (lots of complicated stuff!) an entire assignment on one of these new laptops our school now has, then saved it. After signing out and switching to a normal computer she couldn't find it anywhere in her documents. She went up to computer assistance and...

Wow, that sounds cool. And I thought *my* school's experiments were fun...

But you get to do experiments in science!

The Simpsons and Philosophy. It's a collection of essays about how different concepts in philosophy are portrayed on the Simpsons. It's different.

Lolita's got my vote.

Haha. GITS is awesome. And that's all I'm going to say on this controversial subject...

In no particular order: 1. I read to destress. I find that if ever I'm feeling like there is too much, I just pick up a book to read and it all falls into place. Just realising that I have time to escape and have fun in a book makes everything alright... 2. I read when I'm bored. For...

Wow, it's been a long time since I read those books. I'd completely forgotten most of it until now (if you'd said "Seanchan" to me this morning I would've gone "huh?"). But yeah...those books were long. Really long. And the series even longer. The pace really drags in the last few books...