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Wait, how would having a laptop in the classroom prevent this situation?

• thomaswmeyer 13y ago
  Well, they could google "How old is the shepherd" and find a link to articles discussing that there's no answer...
• nimble 13y ago
  That was sarcasm. My point was that if this level of critical thinking deficiency is really present, then there is something seriously wrong with the way kids are being taught, and calls that you hear for extra funding to pay for things like laptops in the classroom are really a giant waste of money until we fix whatever that is.
  • kbenson 13y ago
    That's a good example of Poe's law. I decided to reply with (hopefully more apparent) sarcasm, because if it wasn't sarcasm, I didn't want to let it go, and if it was, I didn't want to be an ass, and I assumed you could take it as me going with the joke.
• dragonwriter 13y ago
  Well, if students could use the laptop during the test, since its a no-answer question that comes directly from well-publicized earlier research, at least some of them would google it and probably get the correct answer. This doesn't, of course, address the fundamental issue that the test reveals, but it would impact the results of the test.