{"id":2087,"date":"2017-05-21T08:00:55","date_gmt":"2017-05-21T08:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/blog\/?p=2087"},"modified":"2017-12-26T21:50:30","modified_gmt":"2017-12-26T21:50:30","slug":"what-he-said","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/what-he-said\/","title":{"rendered":"What He Said"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Daniel_Willingham_Credit.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2088\" src=\"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Daniel_Willingham_Credit-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Daniel_Willingham_Credit\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Daniel_Willingham_Credit-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Daniel_Willingham_Credit-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Daniel_Willingham_Credit.jpg 1701w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In recent weeks, this blog has written about the dangerous assumption that students can just get all their information from The Google, and the implication that they therefore don&#8217;t need to know much factual knowledge. (Those posts are <a href=\"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/\/the-potential-perils-of-google\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/\/thinking-critically-about-teaching-critical-thinking\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>In yesterday&#8217;s New York Times, Daniel Willingham\u00a0took up the same topic. If you don&#8217;t know Willingham&#8217;s work, a) you should, and b) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/05\/19\/opinion\/sunday\/you-still-need-your-brain.html\" target=\"_blank\">this article<\/a> will be a lovely introduction to his thoughtfulness and clarity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In recent weeks, this blog has written about the dangerous assumption that students can just get all their information from The Google, and the implication that they therefore don&#8217;t need to know much factual knowledge. (Those posts are here and here.) In yesterday&#8217;s New York Times, Daniel Willingham\u00a0took up the same topic. If you don&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":2088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[23,29],"class_list":["post-2087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lb-blog","tag-long-term-memory","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2087"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2091,"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2087\/revisions\/2091"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}