Too Much Content

students need to learn is how to sort, integrate, analyze, and assess content
Long careers provide opportunities to look back, and I found myself doing a bit of that of late. It’s not so much to reflect on what I’ve learned as what I still don’t know. What still puzzles me about teaching and learning? What remains unanswered, important but not yet resolved? For the most part it’s been a good exercise, but I’ve gotten frustrated, agitated, even a little angry about several things and one of them is content. Our thinking about it is all wrong.

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  1. Part of the problem is our willingness to accept the label “content.” Content is amorphous and imprecise. Brains are built to conceptualize and to link concepts into powerful explanatory networks of principles. Change content to concepts in this article and see how it sharpens the discussion and points to a solution.

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