Problem Solving & Higher Levels of Thinking

This next week we were going to review six levels of thinking for teachers. The levels begin with recall at the simplest level and extent to evaluating and creating at the highest level. We see nearly all textbooks (workbook style texts) written at the recall level. We have mentioned before we live in a rote memory culture.
With the ease of information retrieval these days on the internet (even here), how important is recall and the rote memory of facts that can be so easily looked up. Any person with a blackberry on their belt has the internet on their person all the time.
Information in the world is said to be doubling every few years. Some experts believe information will double several times each year in the near future. So under these conditions, what information should be memorized? Yet at the same time a non-reading culture like Ecuador gets more out of touch with the modern world each day. Yes, they become more dependent on the informationally advanced countries who value problem solving.
Our reason for teaching higher levels of thinking is so problem solving becomes a tool possessed by all students. In this culture it is possessed by very few. What you know is clearly in second place to who you know.
So, should we spend time attempting to teach teachers how to teach higher levels of thinking?