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Monday 13th April 2009 3:20 pm

Learning How to Learn

Nichole Pinkard, Director of Innovation at the University of Chicago’s Urban Education Institute, discusses teaching and learning in a digital world, including the expanding notion of teacher and teaching.

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Today’s 6th graders will graduate in 2018. Therefore, she argues, educators must prepare students for the future, a future where there is no longer a set stock of information and where “learning to learn” will become increasingly important.




In this short video from the Carnegie Foundation’s Teaching and Learning Commons, she outlines how we should rethink how we support teachers and what we ask them to do. 

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