http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2008/10/26/school-20/ Closing the Achievement Gap: Teaching Content Sun, 08 Nov 2009 03:13:38 -0600 hourly 1 http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2008/10/26/school-20/comment-page-1/#comment-4728 Dan Willingham Mon, 27 Oct 2008 13:30:13 +0000 http://www.coreknowledge.org/blog/?p=1302#comment-4728 Rachel Right. An equally important insight is that you can't evaluate information if you know nothing about the domain. I can't size up what makes sense and what doesn't among the flood of information on the internet on the subject of chemistry because I don't know much chemistry. Rachel
Right. An equally important insight is that you can’t evaluate information if you know nothing about the domain. I can’t size up what makes sense and what doesn’t among the flood of information on the internet on the subject of chemistry because I don’t know much chemistry.

]]> http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2008/10/26/school-20/comment-page-1/#comment-4724 Rachel Sun, 26 Oct 2008 16:48:26 +0000 http://www.coreknowledge.org/blog/?p=1302#comment-4724 The idea that information is no longer scarce and hard to find seems to me to be a key insight. Learning research skills used to be about learning to find information -- now, much more, its about learning to evaluate information. The idea that information is no longer scarce and hard to find seems to me to be a key insight. Learning research skills used to be about learning to find information — now, much more, its about learning to evaluate information.

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