http://www.backdrifter.com/2008/06/22/knowledge-and-the-crowdsourced-life/ The personal site of Jared Hanson Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:04:50 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.backdrifter.com/2008/06/22/knowledge-and-the-crowdsourced-life/comment-page-1/#comment-21769 Lonna Hanson Tue, 24 Jun 2008 01:11:36 +0000 http://www.backdrifter.com/?p=99#comment-21769 I, again, found this very interesting. As many times before, I think of my experiences being a teacher of elementary age students for the past 34 years. We try to make children find ways to make visual pictures in their minds as a way to teach memorization and automatic recall, whether it being mathematical flashcards, reading sight words, states and capitals, scientific terminology, etc. So, the cell phone and its memory bank or the computers address book does it for us. Also spell check eliminates the need for spelling knowledge. I think of the thousands of spelling tests I have given, corrected and calculated and recorded the grades. I do not think it eliminates the need for what I outlined above, but it most certainly minimizes the importance. Mom I, again, found this very interesting. As many times before, I think of my experiences being a teacher of elementary age students for the past 34 years. We try to make children find ways to make visual pictures in their minds as a way to teach memorization and automatic recall, whether it being mathematical flashcards, reading sight words, states and capitals, scientific terminology, etc. So, the cell phone and its memory bank or the computers address book does it for us. Also spell check eliminates the need for spelling knowledge. I think of the thousands of spelling tests I have given, corrected and calculated and recorded the grades. I do not think it eliminates the need for what I outlined above, but it most certainly minimizes the importance.
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