
Transfer and Conceptual Understanding - A Conversation with Julie Stern
Future Learning Design Podcast
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The Whole Point of Education Is Transfer
The whole point of education is for the young people to take that somewhere else and do something with it, right? Yeah. I mean, it's, you know, it's why we study wars. We study wars in the hope that we won't do it again. And so really just helping them to understand allies and sovereignty in one war to be able to apply it to another war. The beloved facts and details are what give sort of meaning to the concepts because otherwise they're just these abstract esoteric ideas like ally or sovereignty. That's really hard for a kid. It's hard for adults to understand.
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