@Jay42 - That's not a good example because it carries real health risks. Getting people to look something up online using, a deliberately bad strategy, carries no risk. But I suspect you're making a couple of assumptions here - that this is the only strategy that is being used (Rather than one strand out of a bunch that are being used) And, secondly, that the reason behind the task has not been explained to the students? Is this approach something that frustrates you as a student?