Our world is so fast paced now due to technology. When we want to learn something we can just look it up. So how do we teach to students in a society that no longer has a need to memorize facts?
Teach kids the skills! How to acquire knowledge, how to apply learning across different disciplines and contexts, and how to problem solve efficiently. How to find reliable sources and apply newly learned knowledge to solve a problem. How to create! We should be aiming for the top of blooms taxonomy not just simple memorization. Teaching kids how to evaluate sources to determine if they are reliable using google and Wikipedia then applying what they found in a group project and create something new. We must teach in the level that we want kids to be producing and learning at that. Technology offers us ways to do this.
I think you are absolutely right when you say teach the students the skill of research. Focusing on memorization is a skill that is not as effective as it used to be. In addition, there is so much information due to tech, that teaching students the skills necessary to sort out the best sources is necessary.
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