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	<title>Comments on: I Can&#8217;t Believe We&#8217;ve Come to&#160;This</title>
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		<title>By: Liisa</title>
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		<dc:creator>Liisa</dc:creator>
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		<description>Dude. Really? Like, I appreciate that the teacher is teaching test-taking skills (cuz it&#039;s totally a game to be played), but teaching those skills to the exclusion of real math? Or is it that the kid is so far behind, test-taking skills is all he can handle? 

Technology is such an interesting thing. It makes so many things easier, but also eliminates the need to truly understand how something works. I have to say that this is why I initially was a non-Mac person (my dad and I used to build our computers together and tweak stuff--Macs are a lot less transparent than Windows used to be), but not even PCs are hard to figure out. 

That leads me to ponder Bloom&#039;s Taxonomy, and the most basic level: knowledge. Knowledge is so complex! There&#039;s knowledge about what to click, but there&#039;s knowledge about WHY to click, too! And it&#039;s the why we&#039;re starting to lose.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dude. Really? Like, I appreciate that the teacher is teaching test-taking skills (cuz it&#8217;s totally a game to be played), but teaching those skills to the exclusion of real math? Or is it that the kid is so far behind, test-taking skills is all he can handle? </p>
<p>Technology is such an interesting thing. It makes so many things easier, but also eliminates the need to truly understand how something works. I have to say that this is why I initially was a non-Mac person (my dad and I used to build our computers together and tweak stuff&#8211;Macs are a lot less transparent than Windows used to be), but not even PCs are hard to figure out. </p>
<p>That leads me to ponder Bloom&#8217;s Taxonomy, and the most basic level: knowledge. Knowledge is so complex! There&#8217;s knowledge about what to click, but there&#8217;s knowledge about WHY to click, too! And it&#8217;s the why we&#8217;re starting to lose.</p>
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