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The school is the Presbyterian Ladies' College at Croydon and it is encouraging its students to use all the resources they have available to them in the same way that they will later in life:
In their working lives they will never need to carry enormous amounts of information around in their heads. What they will need to do is access information from all their sources quickly and they will need to check the reliability of their information.They are required to cite all their sources when relying on extra-curricular avenues of information retrieval, so they can't just pull any information they like. Their answers still need to be right to pass, after all. [From: textually.org]
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Subscribe to commentsJohnAug 20th 2008 6:45PM
In their working lives they will never need to carry enormous amounts of information around in their heads. What they will need to do is access information from all their sources quickly and they will need to check the reliability of their information....So why go to your school and spend all that money. Just use a cell phone and there you are, instant CEO!
CheeseAug 20th 2008 6:56PM
The problem with this is that the students don't learn anything because they don't have to study and all they have to do is type something on a computer and they get their answers.
stanAug 20th 2008 9:18PM
So,,,,,,,,,Schools now have become just like GAME SHOWS, CALL A LIFE LINE! This is absolutly insane. How about learning? Where does this, calling a friend for answers to a test, fit into education? I'm sorry, you will have to help me understand this!
DarkLightAug 21st 2008 12:32AM
Well, I disagree with you all.
When I'm interested in something, I learn. I don't forget the stuff I care about, no matter where I got it from.
I have my own computer repair shop, and guess what... I'm not an engineer. Not a technician either.
Actually, I haven't finished high school (and I deceided to suspend it for a while)..
I learned all I know from the internet (including english), and I can bet you actual money that I'm equal or better than your local IT engineer. OFFLINE. I'm perfectly capable of doing my stuff without a connection, now that I know it..
If kids don't learn by the answers they receive, then the actual problem is that _they are not educated to care about it_. So now we're talking about education...
Teachers don't educate children, they only teach. Educating is the parents' job.
So it all comes down to the parents, not the school or the kids.
After all, if my parents could do it well with me, then almost any parent can do it with almost any kid. It's just a matter of knowing what you're doing and not wanting other people (usually the teachers) to do what is YOUR job...
If you don't agree it's because you're one of them.... Blame me all you want, but you can't lie to yourself...
Dr. Roger HarrisAug 21st 2008 8:49AM
I would hate to think that my doctor, during surgery, is looking up what he needed to know on the internet. I was TAUGHT and LEARNED for 23 years of primary-high school-college-dental school and surgery residency and never had the ability to access other info when being tested. A test should be a measure of how well you have learned-not how well you can access someone else's knowledge base-it's CHEATING and B.S.!!
unGaAug 22nd 2008 11:50AM
I can't beleive how close-minded people can be!