Facts, questions and link-love
» No such thing as a stupid question? Contemporary Learning
in the age of Google, what value is there in teaching a fact? It seems now more than ever there is a need to address critical literacy. We need to learn how to dig deeper, not only find out what the facts are but which ones are significant and worth knowing.
This topic is near and dear to me but more importantly gives me a chance to spread a bit of link-love with “my man” Paul. Can you feel it?
Of course facts matter. Always have. Always will. Point is whether explicit “fact giving” has a place in the contemporary classroom. If all educators do is deliver facts that can be easily found with a search engine and delivered in a variety of modalities we are in grave danger of being outsourced. Automated even.
Personally I’m trying to outsource as much of this stuff as possible and focus on the things that only I can deliver. Tim Ferris and Daniel Pink style.
I had Let Me Google That For You unblocked for us last week. I use it daily…
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Oh yes, I could feel the link-love. Nice way to tie one blog to another (like a whale and a whaling ship brought together via a harpoon).
I’m trying to get down to a four hour work week ala Tim Ferris, but the powers that rule my life (they will go nameless to protect the innocent) are much like nature – they abhor a vacuum. And that’s a fact you won’t find in Google.