January Issue

Vol 26|No 3|January 2017

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Reducing Tedium and Adding Meaning

 While new technologies are capable of supporting synthesis and advanced thinking, one of their attractive capacities is the reduction of tedium by automating tasks that used to require hudreds or thousandss of hours to accomplish.

In this article, Jamie provides examples of tasks that students can perform that will acquaint them with these capacities and alert them to such possibilities.

 

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