<p>^What did you do instead of using books? For thing like Math, Science, etc? Did they give you printed copies of problem sets instead of bookwork? I can’t imagine you never did any problems in class…</p>
<p>^ I hardly ever carried books around in HS either and it probably was a good thing too as bookbags were outlawed because of bomb threats (most of the girls weren’t allowed to carry purses either).</p>
<p>We did have classroom copies of the books so we didn’t have to bring them. There were only a couple classes that didn’t have these.</p>
<p>The most I will carry at once is
- Physics Textbook
- Notebook
- Binder
- Lab Manual
- plus everything normal like pencils, calculators, etc…</p>
<p>Some classes I don’t even have to bring anything.</p>
<p>That is significantly less than high school’s 45-50 lb backpacks.</p>
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<p>We didn’t do bookwork in class…that was homework…</p>
<p>Any problems that we did were written on the whiteboard and copied by us in our notebooks that we brought to class.</p>
<p>check your library and see if they have a course reserve. use those books on campus, and then buy yourselves some books to keep at home. thats what i do.</p>
<p>*edit: see if books for your courses are available on the kindle/nook. that could be another option</p>
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<p>Why would we spend time in class doing something we could do at home?</p>
<p>^Um, as examples? To make sure you understood the concepts? When you ended the lesson early and your teacher told you to start your homework? Etc. Etc. Etc. There were 100+ reasons we did problems from the book in class.</p>
<p>And don’t give me the “Why when we could it at home?” excuse. Technically, you could just as easily learn the concepts at home, considering you had a textbook. </p>
<p>In my math classes, we’d do book problems in addition to the lesson in class as practice problems, then check them. Then we’d move on to the next lesson. We’d also have homework. A lot of it.</p>
<p>We were always doing book problems. Last year in my science class, that was the first thing we did. Everyday. We’d have 10 minutes to do assigned book problems then turn them in for a grade. </p>
<p>So, how did your classes work then? Just straight lectures every single class? My classes weren’t quite as much like college as that…</p>
<p>In my classes in HS we’d do problems in class, and hell some were probably from the book, but the teacher would either make photocopies or just write the problems on the board for us to do. Pretty simple really…</p>
<p>I use pencil and paper to take notes in class… I don’t trust laptops enough that they won’t randomly crash one day and I lose all my notes. </p>
<p>I don’t bring books to school (I’m a commuter, an hour each way, although the snow in Seattle increased my commute five-fold on Monday…) and instead use library copies when I need them at school.</p>
<p>^^Ah, photocopies. My teachers weren’t allowed to photocopy anything unnecessary. We had a limited amount of paper. And don’t think I’m kidding. There were signs on our paper cabinets that said “Use Sparingly. This is all the paper we have for the year.”</p>
<p>Poor schools. They suck like that. >.></p>
<p>With my teachers, we would be the ones writing the problems on the board. After we’d done them and were checking them over. I can’t recall my teachers writing problems on the board for us to do. It was always “Open to this page. Do these problems.”</p>
<p>I have to lug 2 heavy engineering textbooks as well as notebooks/folders. Can’t drop them off as there is only 10 minutes between classes. The teachers refer to pages in the textbooks and gives us problems to do in class so we are required to bring them.</p>
<p>It’s even worse if I need my laptop too :(</p>
<p>Good NY Times Article on this very subject. Wonder if we’ll all be carrying around Ipads to class?</p>
<p><a href=“In Digital Age, Students Still Cling to Paper Textbooks - The New York Times”>In Digital Age, Students Still Cling to Paper Textbooks - The New York Times;
<p>@wertpoi: I wouldn’t trade my textbooks (as heavy as they are!) for an iPad or digital copy of the textbook… what happens when the electronic gets wet, just dies, falls, runs out of battery? I’d rather rely on an old fashioned text book. If I’m required to bring an iPad to class, i’ll bring that, but I’m still buying the textbook.</p>
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<p>The teacher did examples. Sometimes they would write a problem down and give people a little bit of time to think about it. Giving people a page number in the book to look up would be spectacularly inefficient. </p>
<p>And just having people do a bunch of problems isn’t really appropriate for class. The point of class time (i.e. contact time with the teacher) is that the teacher actually teaches you, and doing a bunch of problems by yourself then seeing the answers afterward doesn’t really take advantage of that. That’s what homework is for.</p>
<p>When the teacher finished the lesson, they wrote the homework assignment down. Then you can do what you want, whether that’s for 20 seconds or 5 minutes.</p>
<p>I love how everyone knows how to teach better than actual teachers do.</p>
<p>On the high school discussion, I almost never carry much around. I always have my AP Chem folder (except for wednesdays because I don’t have Chem that day) and notebook (which I also use for Physics), a pen and pencil, a graphing calculator and a bottle of water. I also have whatever extra folder I need for the class (I have one folder for each class, 7, and a notebook for Physics/Chem and Math which stays in the room most of the time) I’m going to but I bring that back to my locker after the class. The only textbooks I bring are my physics textbook (which I keep in a friends locker right next to the class) and my psych textbook which I keep in another friends locker right next to the class.</p>