I was just shown something by a friend of mine (FrostyCoolSlug). Google Spreadsheets has the ability to incorporate live data from teh intarwebs in the coolest of ways:
=GoogleLookup(”Query”, “value”)
This allows you to do such things as:
=GoogleLookup(”London”, “population”)
=GoogleLookup(”India”, “GDP”)
…and also:
=GoogleLookup(”Water”, “boiling point”)
I certainly wish I’d had the ability to use tools like this for homework. This confirms my belief that education should be in terms of learning how to acquire knowledge, not the worthless cramming of facts. Facts and knowledge of processes is called experience…