maybe release some pencil-and-paper questions?

[fmof]

This is taking your suggestion from the paper and "formalizing" it.

A lot of the practice questions have some feature design component. Releasing some questions might be nice but for feature design the manipulative is one-way (students can't design their own features on-the-fly). The questions could give them good practice, but they wouldn't have a way to verify their answers (without creating their own lesson).

[fmof]

#52 might be related.

[jeisner]

To be clear, I was thinking that teachers who give this lesson might want
to follow it up with a HW assignment.
This could be an "understanding" exercise with pencil and paper, or could
involve using MegaM or Vowpal Wabbit or NLTK to build a log-linear model of
something.

[fmof]

You mean have a separate "instructor's folder" (analogous to the instructor's key for textbooks)?

[jeisner]

Or perhaps just part of the current pdf folder, though if you are imagining
supplying answer keys and stuff, then we have to worry about access control.
We don't have time to put anything together tonight but we could note plans
or materials in the paper.

I think it's useful for the lesson itself to link to the additional
exercises or materials for students, since the lesson might be used by
random people not enrolled in any course.

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You mean have a separate "instructor's folder" (analogous to the
instructor's key for textbooks)?

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[fmof]

That's all simple enough to add: I drafted a couple sentences for the intro, but I'm not sure how much to say (or how much to cross-reference those pencil-and-paper questions in section 7 [provided lessons]).

[fmof]

I can only remember two pencil-and-paper questions: the one about cars and the one about politics. IIRC It seems best to release the cars with the bigram model (lesson 16 on the stable, official version) and the politics with logistic regression (lesson 17 on official version). Do we want to release one, both or neither? If so I can quickly update the abstract and appropriate lesson description in the paper.