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Top News - Digital debate: Prepare kids for exams or life? - 0 views

  • 's only a question of which technology, and of the alignment between technology in the learning situation and in the assessment situation."
  • "It's not that we want kids to cheat," Prensky said. "It's that the definitions of learning, cheating, researching, and collaborating are changing right in front of our eyes."
  • The ideas about how people find information are very fluid, he added, and that can be seen perhaps most easily in medicine, where medical students and doctors are allowed texts in which to look up the answers to questions--but what is most important is knowing which questions to ask.
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  • why is it important;
  • "We're preparing [students] for life, not for exams--that's what it has come down to with [No Child Left Behind, preparing for exams], but that's a silly thing to prepare people for, because you really want to prepare them for life and work."
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    An Australian educators lets students use cell phones and the internet during exams prompting global debate regarding the nature of 21st century assessment.
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