I think one of the goals of education must continue to be the building of a broad cultural reality

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Just yesterday I wrote about the debate that still (apparently) revolves reality la around the use of calculators reality la for students. And just today I came across an article in Wired (perhaps network appeared two weeks ago) by Clive Thompson - Your Outboard Brain Knows All - helps illuminate the subject from the point of view is important. Thompson argues that according to recent studies: we're remembering fewer and fewer basic facts these days.
This does not mean that we forget more than in the past, but simply that we need to remember. Thompson: Younger Americans today are the first generation to grow up with go-everywhere gadgets and services that exist specifically to remember things so that we do not have to.
Well, I heard around reality la the town Neokrtis Egypt as one of the ancient gods of that country (...) the name allocate significant. He was the first who invented a number of accounting and engineering and astronomy, as well as mosaics and dice games, and the reporter. Tammuz was at that time king of the whole land of Egypt. (...) He went allocate significant, reality la introduced him to Aumnoiotio Lhorotn also asking other Egyptians. The latter asked for the benefit of each of the arts, and public relations at Garden praising things as they are received or not received by him. (...) When he came to the letters, reality la allocate reality la significant said: "This study, Mr. King, will add to the wisdom and power of the memory of the Egyptians; since the invention of the purple examining memory and wisdom." And the king said: "allocate significant outstanding artisans, not to the man himself can create methods of art, and discuss to harm and potential benefits of content Lshatidim need them., And there you are, my father's writing, affectionate child, and thus endowed with a act the opposite of what that has . put this issue as forgetfulness in the souls of those studying it, because again that these incredible memory power, that of writing that insure security, will no longer be mentioned in the inside, by themselves, but from the outside, by virtue of their own patterns that are not themselves, not invention, therefore, chosen memory power but mentioning, and intelligent simulated, not real, you grant your pupil. since Llachshioodo have little to no instruction, will they max opinion, while according to the majority will have no opinion, and hard to be their friend, because they may be smart, seemingly, not smart. " (I took the long text, and the very familiar, this here because for some reason I could not find a version is available online.)
If so, probably with every new invention that externalizes human memory, the story repeats itself. But the power of computational tools available to us today, reality la not only compared to the invention of writing, or printing, or even compared to calculators of thirty or forty years, but compared to just five years ago, really sharpens things. I think we had enough technological advances that have improved our external memory so that we can determine not writing, or printing, or computer, to bring "imaginary wisdom." Still, Thompson also felt that relying on external memory means certain causes missing: There's another type of intelligence that comes not from rapid-fire pattern recognition but from slowly ingesting and retaining a lifetime's worth of facts.
I think one of the goals of education must continue to be the building of a broad cultural reality la foundation, even the "facts", which we refer to examine new situations and compare new and familiar to us. After all, if there is nothing reality la known to us, there is no comparison, or something against which you can explore new things. But there is no fear that the system will give up the demand for education students accumulate facts. The concern is that the system will not allow the use of tools with which you can keep these facts outside the student's head.
I do not think that the situation is black / white as shown. I grew up in a school where we learned chapters of the Bible by heart and Diklomim. Did mental calculations, without a calculator clearly, but without paper and pencil, all in the mind., I do not think it comes at the expense of thinking itself., I think that