I don’t know [her number] either. Why would I bother to memorize it? It is tucked safely away in the Contacts list of my Droid. If I need to call her, or text her, or send her an email, I can do that. Why? Because I have the technology.
So, before you get upset with your students because they simply refuse to memorize something in your classroom. Before you accuse them of not having a brain cell in their head. Before you throw up your hands in surrender and shout, “What is this world coming to?” (Which, by the way, is a misuse of a preposition…something I memorized in junior high). Think.
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