Why Memorize When You Can Check Your Phone?

The New York Times has an article about how nursing school students are likely to reach for their smart phones when asked about a drug interaction. They don’t need to memorize this stuff anymore — they can just go ahead and look it up at a moment’s notice.

Educators say that it’s not that the nursing school students don’t need to know as much as they used to, but that “the amount of essential data has exploded.”







The article also talks about the privacy issues that arise when a smart phone is always at the ready. Four students were expelled from nursing school when they posed with a human placenta (ew) and posted the photos on Facebook. Ms. Ellison ends the article by saying, “(T)his is a generation that immediately hits that send button.”

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