[Listen Again] Ep. 26: Tim Shanahan Shares about Strategies & Knowledge Building
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The Importance of Prior Knowledge
Teachers often try to fill time by focusing on things they think will help students, he says. "I remember as being a beginning teacher, my biggest fear was how do I not run out of stuff?" The Greeks had the same problem: How could you ever learn anything new if you didn't already have the knowledge? He writes that teachers should be teaching kids about infinite regress rather than prior knowledge.
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