What to do

What students need is a "mental filing system" that organizes and makes accessible in memory everything they know, a system that helps them distinguish between the important and the trivial, a system suggesting things they could know but don't, a system that makes clear the systemically integrated, mutually supportive nature of knowledge, a system that shows them the basic processes by means of which knowledge expands.

And that system should do all of these things in ways the average adolescent can understand and explain.

Marion Brady “An Any-Century Curriculum”

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Course materials:

I’m doing what I think everybody proposing education reform should do— translating my ideas into specific instructional aids. The materials are designed for adolescent and older learners, complete with discussion forums for educators making use of them.

These materials are absolutely FREE to educators for use with their own students. >>>

Please look them over. Your comments and reactions are welcome. Email: mbrady2222@gmail.com.

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