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why would you memorize what you can google on your iphone from anywhere? memorizing rarely-used facts is out of date.

besides, kids can now identify more species of lolcat than ever before.

You can't really google a bird to figure out that it's a magpie (yet), but one does wonder what the point of being able to identify it is. I'd hope that they're learning more concepts in science than rote memorization which is a debunked educational method.

There is a website that you can post photos of something and ask what it is though.. Sadly I can't remember the address!

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