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General Tech Learning Aids/Tools 2 years ago
Posted on 16 Aug 2022, this text provides information on Learning Aids/Tools related to General Tech. Please note that while accuracy is prioritized, the data presented might not be entirely correct or up-to-date. This information is offered for general knowledge and informational purposes only, and should not be considered as a substitute for professional advice.
Turn Your Knowledge into Earnings.
I've come to the realization that technology has radically revolutionized learning in ways that haven't yet occurred to me.
For example, last night I was reading a pre-school book on animals of the Rainforest to my son. With each picture of an animal, he'd ask me what sound it made. This was easy for some of the animals, but when I got to a toucan, I was stumped.
So, I picked up my phone, brought up Youtube, and did a quick search for Toucans singing. I found a video of a toucan in a zoo making a mating call, and played it for my son.
This was such a hit, that for each animal we looked at, my son requested a video so we could watch them.
I felt like this was a wonderful tool for teaching, and wished that I had had such information readily at my fingertips as a kid.
At the same time, however, I started to wonder if there is any downside to this.
I remember with some amusement when Wikipedia went "dark" in protest of the proposed SOPA lawthat Twitter was inundated with angry posts from teens and school children who were "unable to do their homework" because Wikipedia was down.
This wasn't completely humorous, though, as it did highlight for me that there are risks of becoming dependent upon the Internet for finding information.
I'm guilty of it myself; I frequently look up anything that I don't know well enough, and find most answers to my questions through a quick Google search.
As I teach my son, how do I take advantage of the extra depth of information available, without teaching him that knowing isn't as important as being able to search the Internet effectively?
Finding information easily is the good thing (if the information is reliable). Conditioning yourself to "find and forget, find and forget" is the bad thing.
Two reasons: First, if you always google with an empty mind, how do you notice if the web page is lying to you? We usually notice if some information on the page is in conflict with what we already know... but to do this, we have to remember what we learned previously. Second, to understand some complex things you have to understand the simple things first. If you keep forgetting each of those simple things in the moment you close the wikipedia page, you will never be ready to understand the complex thing. Yes, you can read the wikipedia page for the complex thing too, but it will be full of words you don't know and reasonings you don't understand. (Just open some wikipedia page about quantum physics or advanced maths to see how helpless a person can be without the necessary education even if the information is easily available.)
The antidote to the "find and forget, find and forget" is remembering. Don't learn too many new things at the same time. Then go away from the internet and talk about the things that you found there. Take a walk around the house and ask your son: "Do you remember the sound of toucan?" Memory improves by trying to recall and by repeating.
If you find that he does not remember many of the things you found (and perhaps neither do you), then you have spent too much time googling. It gave you an illusion of knowledge, maybe it was very pleasant (nothing wrong with that per se), but it did not give you knowledge. It was a visual equivalent of eating a cake while thinking it was a fruit.
In other words, use internet as a textbook, not as a cheat sheet. (Or if you need to use it as a cheat sheet now, be aware of that, and use it as a textbook later.)
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