This quote comes from A Plea for Media Literacy in our Nation’s Schools. It’s actually a reference to writings by a communications theorist named David Berlo.
- “Most of what we have called formal education has been intended to imprint on the human mind all of the information that we might need for a lifetime,” he wrote in 1975. But the simultaneous explosion in information and technology mean that “for the first time in history,” it is no longer either possible or necessary to store all available information within the human brain, and Berlo argued that education must adjust accordingly.
“Education needs to be geared toward the handling of data rather than the accumulation of data,” he wrote. “Humankind needs to be taught how to process information.”
Hot dog! I also recommend the articles on cognitive organization over at Dr. Renee Fuller’s website.
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