I can hear the harrumphs coming in from everywhere

The Danish Government is reported to be allowing Internet access to high school students during exams.  To someone who remembers using a slide rule - and living through the controversies about whether electronic calculators should be allowed in examination rooms - this is a bit of a shock, but then it depends just what you’re trying to test.  If it’s only to see whether you can regurgitate facts, that’s one thing.  But if we’re moving to a more information-literate society it makes a lot of sense.

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