A recent TED Talk by Diana Laufenberg, a social studies teacher, makes an important point about what, and how, students need to learn. She teaches younger students but I think her ideas hold for adult students as well.
They don’t need experts for information anymore, information is all around them. What they need are to develop thinking skills. Laufenberg’s grandmother needed to listen to her teachers to get information. Laufenberg grew up with the advantage of encyclopedias as an additional information source. Her students have huge amounts of information literally at their fingertips.
They don’t need a teacher to tell them facts, they need a teacher to help them develop skills to use the information already available to them.
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