Episode notes
Information used to be hard to find. Now it is cheap, immediate, and everywhere.
In this episode of Because the Curriculum Says So, Laura looks at how Google, smartphones, and AI have changed the value of memorization in education. If students can retrieve information instantly, what knowledge still deserves classroom time? What do they genuinely need to function as adults, think critically, and understand the world around them?
From calculators in our pockets to curriculum built around “you might need this someday,” this episode asks a bigger question: if information is no longer scarce, what is education actually for?
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education
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curriculum
information