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http://www.redherring.com/insider/2002/08/classroom082102.html

Is our children learning?
Julie Landry

In a well-appointed classroom in New York City, a pair of sixth graders at Mott Hall School are doing what corporate executives the world over are doing--creating PowerPoint presentations. For the students, the purpose is to learn about the human liver. They are copying and pasting information from medical Web sites and selecting the right background colors and clip art. But after spending 20 minutes just designing the introduction page, the students still can't answer the most basic question: What does the liver do? "I don't know; we were supposed to do the gallbladder," answers a shy Latino girl with pigtails. They are learning how to use PowerPoint, but they have no idea what the content means....

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