Cut Copy Paste
Its ironic that I came across 2 blog posts on similar rants. I read Suggestion: Talk To The Source by Fred Wilson in the morning & then I came across CNN-IBN, You Owe me an Errata!! by Gaurav Sabnis.
Both of them had the same problem. They were misquoted by journalists on the Internet and both of them were never contacted to verify the details. This seems to be common amongst the new age journalists who are probably firms believers of “Cut Copy Paste”.
I think the Internet creates information overload. And Google makes it easy to pick the needle from the haystack. I’ve heard students mentioning that they can finish homework faster, all thanks to the Internet. Is this what we really need? A shortcut to information without trying to understand it? I don’t think so.
While i understand the temptation of trying to short circuit I think it is even more important that we have the desire to learn & understand about the way things work or why things happen. Just mearly copying content without reading or understanding it is not going to help. The learning streak is very important. Infact I think, if nothing, all these new age schools to do the least, is to inculacate the desire to learn in children.
The learning streak goes a long way to make you a better person as your grow up.
April 17th, 2009 at 7:55 am
Nice thought. I was recently thinking about what the learning system of tomorrow is going to be like? Going by the present state of affairs, it is more or less ur skill of Googling that is taking precendence. I think in future we will have to harvest the other subtle skills, so as to get the best use, synergy, of technology and human set of skill. That means, ability to recall the information faster and better. Ability to relate informations, and ruling out the un-required pieces -faster, better and accurately. Skills in use of hand-eyes, hand-finger, co-ordinition and other body reflexes.
In short, we may have to return to the Gurukul education of Yoga Shlok learning!!! (haha, just one vague proposition)