Book notes

"Educators generally do not look to research for guidance."

"Students come to the classroom with preconceptions about how the world works. If their initial understanding is not engaged, they may fail to grasp new concepts and information presetned in the classroom, or they may learn them for purposes of a test but never to ther preconcpetions outside the classrooom. This finding requires that teachers be prepared to draw out their stsudnets' existing undersstandings and hellp to shape them info an understanding that reflects the concepts and knwoledge in the particular discipline of study."

"Strategies can be taught that allow students to monior their understanding and progress in problem solving. Although this monitoring goes on as an internal conversation, the stratgies involved are part of a culture of inquiry, and they can be successfully taught in the context of subject matter."

As I've noted before, we need not only continuous learning but also continuous unlearning.

One word summary of this book: constructivism.