13th
October
2008
Copy, paste but read as well
Now that research (for secondary school students) seems to involve mastery of copy/paste from a web page, there are some upset educators in the house. To be fair, in my day Encyclopedia Britannica was used in a similar way; after you’d handcopied several pages of microprint, there was an even chance that learning took place despite your best intentions. Now, the action has become mechanical, and the absorption rate of raw knowledge is much lower (this has not yet been confirmed by independent study OR the editorial staff of EB).
posted in education | Comments Off on Copy, paste but read as well | 270 words
