whiteboard interviews might not be the best way to conduct interviews.
Certainly agree with you there, but...
But the hypervigilance against student cheating only exists because of the outsized focus on exams.
Agree with you about the outsized focus on exams, but deemphasizing exams (a good thing) is quite a different thing than allowing phones (and therefore net access) during an exam. We want our students to be proficient at searching for information online, but a maths exam shouldn't be the place to test that skill.
With net access, students for example could be fed the literal answers to a standardized test that was already taken by people in a different time zone. And what if there's a net outage during the exam?
Also, while the TI calculators are obviously underpowered and their stranglehold on the educational market borders on corruption, there is value in a standardized tool. What about students without phones and cellular data plans? What about students who can't afford apps, etc?
Last but not least, while the compute power of a TI calculator pales in comparison to, say, a phone or RaspberryPi at half the cost -- is the lack of compute power on tap really a problem? I got through calc I-III just fine with a TI back in the day. I would not say the TI was my limiting factor in any way.
With net access, students for example could be fed the literal answers to a standardized test that was already taken by people in a different time zone. And what if there's a net outage during the exam?
Also, while the TI calculators are obviously underpowered and their stranglehold on the educational market borders on corruption, there is value in a standardized tool. What about students without phones and cellular data plans? What about students who can't afford apps, etc?
Last but not least, while the compute power of a TI calculator pales in comparison to, say, a phone or RaspberryPi at half the cost -- is the lack of compute power on tap really a problem? I got through calc I-III just fine with a TI back in the day. I would not say the TI was my limiting factor in any way.