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Nicholas Carr writes: "So you bought that new iPhone. If you’re like the typical owner, you’ll be pulling your phone out and using it some 80 times a day, according to data Apple collects. That means you’ll be consulting the glossy little rectangle nearly 30,000 times over the coming year. Your new phone, like your old one, will become your constant companion and trusty factotum — your teacher, secretary, confessor, guru. The two of you will be inseparable." 
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You can now easily integrate Bloom's Taxonomy into the teaching of critical thinking skills in your classroom using a fabulously simple chart! Via David M
Mary Reilley Clark's insight:
I like this visual for students and teachers to see why it's important to move toward evaluation of information. I'm hopeful that our inquiry-based learning will get us there!
Dovid's curator insight,
October 1, 2013 9:12 PM
Bloom's Taxonomy simplified for developing thinking skills! 
Rudolf Kabutz's curator insight,
October 3, 2013 12:30 PM
Thanks, dear Fabienne, this is really insightful. In teaching one might want to progressively move from one level to the next, yet I would expect that one could work on all levels simultaneously. How much more would children learn when they ask their 3-year-old, "What do you think ..." 
Cassandra's curator insight,
October 11, 2013 11:57 AM
Good information for teaching or treatment plans. |
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Rebecca Hersher writes: "The most emphatic statements on Roof's behalf came from defense attorney David Bruck. For weeks, the prosecution had presented evidence that Roof is a white supremacist whose violent racism drove him to kill black people. Bruck asked the jury to consider how the 22-year-old came to believe the things he did. As NPR reported: " 'There is hatred all right, and certainly racism, but it goes a lot further than that,' [Bruck] said." 'Every bit of motivation came from things he saw on the internet. That's it. ... 'He is simply regurgitating, in whole paragraphs, slogans and facts — bits and pieces of facts that he downloaded from the internet directly into his brain.' " Bruck was referring to Roof's assertion in his confession and in a manifesto that a Google search shaped his beliefs.
Mary Reilley Clark's insight:
I'd be interested to hear students' reactions to this article. We talk a lot about Google search results, and how first page results doesn't mean best results(and I'm not happy that the Stormfront website on Martin Luther King still shows up on the first page of Google's results.) What a horrific example of what can happen when someone can't think critically about information they're exposed to.
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There is so much to digest in this article. When we think we don't need to remember facts because we have Google, are we changing the way we think? The most thought-provoking quote: "As the brain grows dependent on the technology, the research suggests, the intellect weakens."
This article pairs well with Cal Newport's book Deep Work and makes me want to break up with my phone--a bit. I will at least set it to silent and try to leave it out of the room when I work.