How will the education be impacted by information and online revolution?

In general, the online revolution has many benefits in the sense that more people will have access to information than they ever did before. With the click of a button you can find out virtually everything you need to know in order to complete your homework, an essay, thesis, etc., without having to lug vast tomes around with you from one place to another.

However, because these answers are instantaneous, the likelihood of their being retained is possibly lower. Children, students, adults are losing the ability to "search" for the information that they need. Crossword puzzles are a good example, whether cryptic or simply general knowledge. In the past, one would have resorted to a thesaurus, the Enclyopaedia Britannica, several volumes of Webster's Dictionary, etc. Because your mind was being trained to search and sometimes it was only possible to find the answer you were looking for via a somewhat convoluted route, it was more likely that you would remember that piece of information once you had found it. Now, at the click of a button, you've got it. And, with another click of the button, it has gone again. As it has passed so fleetingly across your retina and through those remarkable little grey cells, is it possibly less likely to be remembered? Could this ultimately mean that a person's level of general knowledge would be less comprehensive than in the past?