What are we calling ‘rigorous’ learning?

December 16, 2014 by 1 Comment

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Asking students to do even more low-level factual recall and procedural regurgitation work is not 'rigorous' learning. And it surely isn't vigorous learning either. @mcleod, dangerouslyirrelevant.org

Asking students to do even more low-level factual recall and procedural regurgitation work is not ‘rigorous’ learning. And it surely isn’t vigorous learning either.

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One Response to “What are we calling ‘rigorous’ learning?”

  1. Cindy Sheets Reply December 17, 2014 at 2:34 pm

    Absolutely. As a gifted facilitator, I find that teachers often think that adding “extra” or “more challenging” (of the same routine kind of work) is what they want. No. They want challenging work that engages their thinking with real problems and the interesting tasks.

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