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From: phys-l-bounces@mail.phys-l.org [mailto:phys-l-bounces@mail.phys-
l.org] On Behalf Of Robert Cohen
Unfortunately, I'm not so sure it is making the point as well as I had hoped.At least 5 times I've asked students, after a conversation about a nice place to eat in Memphis or Nashville, how to get there, they reply, "Oh, I don't know. I just enter the address in the GPS and follow that." Then I ask them what the address is. "Oh, I don't know. I'll <search engine> it if I need it." Even knowledge has become disposable to this generation. And they want a solution immediately or they give up. That's why they don't like maps.
For one thing, I always find some students, when faced with the choice, who
prefer to memorize each individual route (or so they say). Apparently there
is a sizable population who do not like maps. For example, an article
appeared recently in our local paper where an intern was asked to find his
way to a particular destination using GPS, google maps, mapquest, asking
directions, and using a map. He then timed how long it took him using the
various techniques. When he used the map, he never got there. That didn't
seem to bother him in the least.