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This is a common rebuttal but despite the fact that everyone does have google in their pockets, clearly a lot of people never use it to learn and only use it fo
by lbriner 4y ago
This is a common rebuttal but despite the fact that everyone does have google in their pockets, clearly a lot of people never use it to learn and only use it for entertainment so testing what they know off by heart does still matter imho.
When we locked down in the UK, millions of people were furloughed for 6 months+. How many of those people retrained, studied etc.? Not as many as we might hope because education is firstly about motivation and secondly about information.
- Xylakant 4y agoThe rebuttal is not aimed at „everyone can learn“, but at „you can look up things that you required to memorize two decades ago.“ I can look up any important constant to hundreds of decimal points, find explanations for almost all publicly known algorithms, way more information than I could ever memorize. Tests often still pretend that knowing this is important. But what‘s more important is knowing what to look for and how to transform the general knowledge you can read into a solution. That’s a skill and it needs training and it‘s the skill that‘s important and should be tested for. But those tests are harder to design, harder to grade and you cannot reuse them - since someone will just post the solution on the internet. And you need to prevent students from just sharing the solution during the exam.