The Pedagogical Hall of Shame

[henchminion]

It's that time of year again. Behind friends-locks, graduate student blogs are brimming over with a year's harvest of bloopers from over-caffinated, under-slept students. You can find all the old favourites: Charlemange, Martin Luther and the Prostates, various people who "serviced" other people, and several ideas that would make interesting

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[petmyrhino]

I hope I'm not guilty of this kind of thing... Maybe I am???

I usually think that open ended questions with a multitude of possible answers give students the opportunity to show off what they know.

That said, I wanted to come up with snark answers to the questions.
What is a cathedral good for?
Stomping on

[henchminion]

I think the open-ended questions would be okay as essay questions. Some teachers seem to be looking for short, simple answers to them, however. Then the students get confused because the "right" answer varies wildly depending on who you ask.