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Groff doesn’t dispute that mastery is important and that students need to learn age-appropriate content, but she also argues it’s equally important to develop students’ ability to go beyond that, to question and apply learning in new situations

1.Learners have to be at the center of what happens in the classroom

2. Learning is a social practice and can’t happen alone

The textbook, The lecturer and the classroom are three pillars of modern-day schooling that date back hundreds of years.

There’s just one catch – these problems don’t exist anymore. In the 21st Century, the Internet has ushered in an online learning environment where information is abundant, teachers are plentiful and learning is global.

To put it simply – we need new pillars for learning.

The why of education should be the first question that we answer in any discussion in the field.

Sadly, it seems to be very difficult to say anything about “what learning is” and “why we educate our children”.

but it’s pretty tough to create a system that both trains people to do what they are told and to also critically assess their culture.