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Apps and the end of lectures?
By Clive Young, on 8 February 2011
“Why should we spend so much time memorising this much when the information is easily accessible?”
Interesting article in this months medicalstudent – Are iPhone apps replacing traditional lectures? It’s on page 5.
Echoes the comments of Prof Sugata Mitra, star of TED and ALT-C (hole-in-the wall computers etc) when asked asked last year to make three predictions – in just 2 minutes – about what universities would be like in 2025 – one of the areas he obviously felt quite strongly about was how mobile computing might change medical education.
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Interesting, and confirms my suspicion that although scientists (and medics) must write, they can’t necessarily do it well!
Turning off the targeting computer for a finer attack on the problem is an option only for the extremely well-prepared, so I think swotting for exams is going to remain a feature of high-criticality occupations like flying, law, medicine and a few others.
Hand-held references don’t replace knowledge, only shelf-held references.