It's becoming cliche for educators to proclaim that they don't want to teach children knowledge, because people "can just Google for information." What they don't understand is that information comes in various forms, and some are better than others. As Lindsey Brigham writes on the CIRCE Institute's blog: In contrast to the meandering, holistic, and … Continue reading You Can’t Just Google Context
Stop Googling Everything and Memorize
It's common nowadays to hear this from school leaders: "Kids don't need to memorize anything now that we have Google." Peter Wood, president of the National Association of Scholars, takes on this misconception in the Huffington Post. He writes: ...in the hustle to get beyond memory we miss some fine things. The drudgery that comes … Continue reading Stop Googling Everything and Memorize
