[Year 12 IT Apps] [OT] Interesting, but not really relevant to any KK

[Roland Gesthuizen]

Its a silly notion, I would like to see the scholarly research about filling our heads full of facts.

Chemistry isn’t about memorising the periodic table, it is about identifying the patterns, trends and the chemical basis for these. I enjoyed the challenge of having learned Auslan, Sight-reading Braille and Klingon but hey, it is more for the mental jog than adding deep value to my life.

We really only need to memorise what is worth remembering. I have students that refuse to write events and deadlines down in their diary, preferring to retain homework reminders in their head. I’ll admit that I now struggle to rattle off phone numbers like I used to but if this is at the price of having ready digital access to thousands on my organiser, its a no-brainer.

—
Roland GESTHUIZEN
http://about.me/rgesthuizen

> On 14 Nov 2014, at 9:55 am, Matheson, Heath A <Matheson.Heath.A at edumail.vic.gov.au> wrote:
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> That would strictly be an apple user disease?
>  
> Heath Matheson
> Mount Beauty Secondary College
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> From: itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au <mailto:itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au> [mailto:itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au <mailto:itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au>] On Behalf Of Robert Hind
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> iAlzheimer's ?
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> Robert Hind
> Retired
> Ex Traralgon and Ashwood
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> From: Mark <mailto:mark at vceit.com>
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> Subject: [Year 12 IT Apps] [OT] Interesting,but not really relevant to any KK
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> I have noticed this effect myself, especially with phone numbers.
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> Have you heard about the internet rewiring our brains and eating our memories? In her new book Mind Change, publicity expert Baroness Professor Susan Greenfieldclaims this is what’s happening. She describes the “Google Effect” where the internet becomes like an external memory bank. She cites research published in 2011 by Betsy Sparrow and colleagues – people who saved facts on a computer were less able to recall those facts later as compared with people who were told the facts would be erased. If we rely on computers in this way, what might become of us? “Imagine that in the future people become so used to external access for any form of reference that they have not internalized any facts at all,” Greenfield warns. 
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> http://www.wired.com/2014/11/paper-effect-note-something-youre-likely-forget/ <http://www.wired.com/2014/11/paper-effect-note-something-youre-likely-forget/>
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> Mark Kelly
> mark AT vceit DOT com
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> I love the sound of people's voices after they stop talking.
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