[sp332]

But it might seem like good time management to have Wolfram Alpha do your homework sometimes. That means it's going to take longer for a teacher to notice that you're not getting a concept well, and that means a lot more painful surprise-F's on tests.

[criddell]

That could be painful for the teacher too. If kids don't do well on tests, then teachers can fail their evaluations. It seems like it would be an incentive to use the flipped model where exercises are worked though in class and students learn lessons at night via video and reading.

[JadeNB]

> That means it's going to take longer for a teacher to notice that you're not getting a concept well, and that means a lot more painful surprise-F's on tests.

I'm not sure how much to read into this, so forgive me if I'm misunderstanding the tone; but calling an F after not doing any of the work oneself a "surprise F" seems a lot like calling it a "surprise loss" when one hasn't shown up for any of the team practices. (If you were just observing that students are surprised by such F's, no matter how often it's pointed out to them, and no matter how often they've met such outcomes before, then I am forced reluctantly to agree.)