![]() ![]() Is it cheating to use this amazing tool in the above context… no. Wolfram|Alpha is a great teaching aid to remind parents as well as visually instruct students/children. For some coworkers who didn’t focus on math or science in school have completely forgotten even the most basic algebraic formulas. One particular coworker uses Wolfram|Alpha ask a tutoring aid and also to check his son’s homework. The video is blocked due to my work firewall, but interestingly enough this topic has come up among my coworkers and our school-aged children. ![]() Simply intelligent use of the available tools to access commoditised information. So, not cheating at all, in any circumstance. Technology is a given in learning today, so teaching the skills of the 21st Century, underpinned by technical literacy and good digital citizenship are key. Students should be taught to ask, “How does this apply to my world? If event X was on this date, what predeterminants caused it, and what was the post-event sequence of events caused by the event? Why did those things happen? What was in place that made it so? Who were the actors, if any and why?” You get where I’m headed. Rather, what needs to be taught is critical thinking, idea creation, questioning of dogma, creativity (as much as such a thing can be taught) and most of all, context. What this points to more than ever for me is that the teaching of rote learned facts – event X was on this date, person Y was the king, math problem Z resolves to such and such – has rapidly decreasing value in the 21st Century as the time taken for anyone to discover factual data has approached zero.įacts are now a near-zero cost commodity.
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