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Cepeda: Is technology unintentionally making us ignorant?
By Esther Cepeda
Published: November 6, 2014, 12:00am
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A decade ago, when I was a graduate student in teacher training, a frightening thing came from an accomplished and generally excellent professor.
She said that in “the future,” teachers would no longer have to toil with the difficult and repetitive work of instilling boring facts into students’ heads.
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