Provoking thoughts about education #8: Expert learning strategies

Fifteen seconds to really make you think #8: Expert learning strategies

This 15 second video should really make you think about the extent to which you proactively develop your learners’ expert, independent learning skills. Do you ever write a learning outcome focused on this? From John Holt’s ‘How Children Fail’. Click the image to watch the very short video of the full quotation.

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‘The reason so many children in our classes learned so little was that they used such bad thinking and problem-solving strategies.’

[John Holt, (1964) ‘How Children Fail’: Penguin, Page 42]

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