The Role of Content in Classrooms Today
content of what we focus on matters.
Cal Newport • Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
We cannot stress enough the importance of long-term priorities in planning. Justifiable decisions about what to teach, what to leave out, what toemphasize, and what to minimize can be made only if there are agreed-uponpriorities related to exit-level objectives. With no long-term goals, there is noperspective—hence no check on the teacher habit of
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ensure relevance and connection to real-world issue
The Edge Learning Center • Article
we've become professional consumers. We read books, take courses, watch videos—constantly filling our minds with more information. But we rarely take the crucial next step: turning that knowledge into something meaningful that others can benefit from.
The shift that changes everything
When we build, we do more than create content. Thanks to new technologies, we also create context by building within a particular environment, often providing links or creating connections and juxtapositions to give meaning to the content. Learning now, therefore, goes far beyond a simple transfer of information and becomes inextricably bound with
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