What are we calling ‘rigorous’ learning?

by | Dec 16, 2014 | Learning and Teaching | 1 comment

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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1 Comment

  1. Cindy Sheets
    Cindy Sheets on 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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