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By: samwalker

samwalker — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 09:48:11 +0000

I usually do research on Google for lots of trivia that I can tell my friends and family, then eventually they're impressed with what I'm saying.

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Philippine Call Center — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 03:19:03 +0000

I think that there are so much difference on finding answers from before to this computer/online age. Before, we need to really look it up on a book, or ask a person and put them piece by piece before arriving an answer, but today, you can just type in a certain keyword/s then viola! the answer is right in front of you. This means that the knowledge process and analysis of the people way back are stronger than now.

By: Philam

Philam — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:42:09 +0000

This is great article, the title is also interesting "Outsourcing Our Memory to Google". Couldn't you imagine to outsource our memory to google? hehehe
It's really a great job to 'help students find the right information and use it effectively to solve problems'.

Keep up jonmott!

Phil

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By: clintlalonde

clintlalonde — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 19:06:55 +0000

I agree this is a fundamental shift that educators are dealing with and forcing us to rethink a whole whack of current practice (not the least of which is assessment).

I really like the concept of an “outboard brain”, coined by Cory Doctorow. He was speaking specifically about his blog being his outboard brain, but others have picked up and expanded on it to include the web and, increasingly, the devices we use to connect to the web. Clive Thompson at Wired wrote an interesting article about his outboard brain in an article he wrote in 2007 (Your Outboard Brain Knows All http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/15...). The line he used that I like is “the line between where my memory leaves off and Google picks up is getting blurrier by the second.”

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By: jonmott

jonmott — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 22:28:33 +0000

Agreed–there is a good deal of domain specific knowledge that an expert or practitioner should be able to recall and use at will. However, the amount of knowledge even within a domain (e.g., the drug interactions a doctor should know about) is massive enough that some reliance on Google-like machines for memory assistance is not only inevitable but desirable. This is even more true for the layperson who only occasionally has need to recall and use facts to complete a particular task.

By: jonmott

jonmott — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 22:24:44 +0000

@Neil I agree with you completely–there are many aspects of cognition that we can't (and shouldn't) outsource to any machine. The challenge for us as scholars and educators is to leverage technology to do what it's good at thereby freeing up our cognitive bandwidth for the weightier matters you reference.

By: Neil Stephenson

Neil Stephenson — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:10:18 +0000

For awhile I've been wondering about the difference between factoids and discipline knowledge. It's easy to trot out the arguments against a pedagogy that involves merely the delivery of memorizable and repeatable chunks of information. While I'm strongly in favour of education being about 'thinking' not about information, I'm starting to question just how easily those two elements can be separated.

Right now I'm being impacted by Howard Gardner's Book "Five Minds for the Future", particularly the section on the Disciplined Mind. It's interesting that in his belief, some of the other 'minds' such as the Synthesizing Mind, require the background content that comes from being disciplined in a subject area. While I myself (like all of us) have countless examples of being able to "google something" to find a piece of info, that's a long way from understanding the appropriate and discipline-based habits of mind that make up clear and effect thinking on a given topic. Disciplined thinking, like Gardner's other minds (Synthesizing, Creative, Respectful and Ethical) can't be outsourced to Google..