{"id":99,"date":"2003-08-19T14:45:00","date_gmt":"2003-08-19T21:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wog.ihoby.com\/?p=99"},"modified":"2003-08-19T14:45:00","modified_gmt":"2003-08-19T21:45:00","slug":"what-is-being-taught-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wog.ihoby.com\/?p=99","title":{"rendered":"What is being taught"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<\/p>\n<div xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml'>I agree with the problem of what is being taught. If you&#8217;re idea of learning is the precise regurgitation of information, that makes computers geniuses and humans (except the few with &#8216;photographic memory&#8217;) utterly stupid. This then, obviously, is not the measure of intelligence and learning.<\/p>\n<p>If you teach something in a way that recording and playback devices of whatever kind allow the student to pass a test with better scores than someone without such a device, that means you&#8217;re attempting to teach either the wrong things or the wrong way. Tests should assess what someone has learned, not what they&#8217;ve blindly committed to memory. Knowledge is nothing without active thought. It&#8217;s high time our crippled school system starts adopting this philosophy (among others) when (or perhaps, if) it springs forth from the ashes.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I agree with the problem of what is being taught. If you&#8217;re idea of learning is the precise regurgitation of information, that makes computers geniuses and humans (except the few with &#8216;photographic memory&#8217;) utterly stupid. This then, obviously, is not the measure of intelligence and learning. If you teach something in a way that recording [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wog.ihoby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wog.ihoby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wog.ihoby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wog.ihoby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wog.ihoby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wog.ihoby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wog.ihoby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wog.ihoby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wog.ihoby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}