tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post2022987763015027308..comments2024-03-28T19:47:39.985-04:00Comments on CURMUDGUCATION: The Disordered Order of CompetenciesPeter Greenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16511193640285760299noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-45150607863921689462018-12-10T23:38:29.417-05:002018-12-10T23:38:29.417-05:00Anyone who has taught children understands that di...Anyone who has taught children understands that displaying "mastery" is not an achievement that lasts for all time. Students learn things, and they forget things. Getting a concept or fact into short-term memory is different than getting it into long-term memory. Skills and concepts gained are easily lost if not used and/or repeatedly connected to other learning. What we need to generate in our classrooms is not mastery per se, but rather the joy that comes when learning helps makes sense of earlier learning and is then applied to authentic situations. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08048537055318497689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-5970523829775741882018-12-07T12:43:00.233-05:002018-12-07T12:43:00.233-05:00I see the roots of this misunderstanding of learni...I see the roots of this misunderstanding of learning in the basic Western teleological view of knowledge and "progress"--everything before has been leading, step by step, towards the wonderful us in the here and now. If we think of history as the inexorable progress of "man" from "primitive" times to present "perfection," we inevitably gloss over the mountains of error in that world view. That's why it's so helpful to invent new words like "herstory" to facilitate new perspectives.Fred Mindlinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09862148685897378157noreply@blogger.com