Some teachers are concerned that students will use services like these to cheat on exams. On the other hand, some would argue that memorization of facts is not valuable any more when all the information is just a few key strokes away. The real question now is how much does a person have to know or memorize to function properly in society?
If you're interested in this topic, you should check out The Dumbest Generation by Mark Bauerlein. The title is extreme, in my opinion, but he does raise some interesting questions about a potential decline in literacy caused by over dependence on information technology.
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You know you can query Google via SMS too, eh? http://www.google.com/mobile/default/sms/index....>
Some teachers are concerned that students will use services like these to cheat on exams. On the other hand, some would argue that memorization of facts is not valuable any more when all the information is just a few key strokes away. The real question now is how much does a person have to know or memorize to function properly in society?
If you're interested in this topic, you should check out The Dumbest Generation by Mark Bauerlein. The title is extreme, in my opinion, but he does raise some interesting questions about a potential decline in literacy caused by over dependence on information technology.