Eduation: Wasted resources and opportunities

A post in another thread got me thinking....

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Originally Posted by SonnyJack (Post 18384926) You had the Internet in school??? I was lucky to have MSDOS and a 5 inch floppy. I mean the real floppy ones!

We had typewriters, pens/pencils and paper. LOL

Perhaps it's just me, but I think it crazy that for all the time savings and content availability the Internet provides, the expectations placed on high school and college students haven't really increased.

There are myriad techniques that allow individuals to very rapidly perform math operations and to read very quickly. For example:

• http://ift.tt/1T6vp1I
• http://ift.tt/1T6vmmx and http://ift.tt/1T6vmmA
• http://ift.tt/1gnbN7K
• http://ift.tt/1T6vmmI -- I saw parts of this -- factoring -- and wondered if it's really probable that most people don't generally do math operations this way. I know that everyone by the eighth grade has been taught factoring. Do they not in turn use the skill after having been taught it?

Those techniques enable one to hasten one's ability to process the increased volumes information the Internet makes available. Yet, the minimum content exposure and mastery that is required of learners at the high school and undergraduate levels remains largely unchanged from what it was in the 1980s.

What a waste....

All the best.

Eduation: Wasted resources and opportunities