In part one of this article (link below), we said that we believe teaching facts is important, but facts learned in isolation are of limited value.
Rather than teach facts by rote, we should teach facts and then teach our students how to apply them in a range of different contexts as well as make myriad connections between them.
The ability to extend what is learned in one context to new contexts is called transfer and it is important because students need to flexibly adapt their knowledge and skills to all manner of new problems and settings. However, this ability to transfer learning is not necessarily automatic – we need to teach it.
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