<< I think I'm a better person because I was educated, not just trained.
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Oooh... how impressive.
It's too bad that your students expect so much from technology. I can relate
to the frustration of trying to get students to think instead of button-push.
But they _are_ going to have access to technology now and in the future. So
does this mean that students will never be "better people"?
Couldn't we be more optomistic tha that?
I believe that students can be both "educated" about how x2+5x+6 equals
(x+2)(x+3) AND "trained" to let the calculator to do the trial-and-error
work for them.
Mark Harbison
Whittier, CA