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Everbody on the planet has a smartphone and access to a world of information and data at their fingertips. Unless you are a contestant on Jeopardy, being able
by jqpabc123 3y ago
Everbody on the planet has a smartphone and access to a world of information and data at their fingertips.
Unless you are a contestant on Jeopardy, being able to recall lots of little pieces of data no longer has a lot of inherent value.
What does still have significant value is understanding what the data represents and how it can used and manipulated and combined and applied in creative ways in order to make good decisions and solve problems.
- rincebrain 3y agoThere are some limits on that, I think. If you can't figure out how to describe your question, for example, because you haven't memorized enough vocabulary to express it, it becomes problematic. Similarly if you aren't familiar enough with the topic to verify that the output of any such tool is reasonable, and you end up posting "rm -rf /" as an answer to a question of "how do I free space on my hard drive" because it's a common shitpost answer to the question. And a lot of people have gotten through the education system, in my experience, by rote regurgitation from memorization without deeper understanding, so I think the changes around this are going to make much clearer to some a gaping divide between how well people learn right now versus how well people think others are learning.
- nirse 3y agoI quite stormy disagree with you here: in order to reason about complex things it's absolutely necessary to have ready knowledge so that you can combine those bits and draw conclusions, see bigger pictures etc, you just can't do that by googling some facts.
- airbreather 3y agoyes and the problem is the world is awash with answers, the real skill is knowing the question to ask, so assessment should be more based around this.
- Xorakios 3y agowas Socrates an airbreather? ;)