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Teaching without knowing

Teaching without knowing

From the course: Teaching Future-Ready Students

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Teaching without knowing

- In this video I'm going to address the benefits of teaching a skill, like computer programming, even if you as the teacher are not an expert in that skill. An accepted foundation of teaching is that to teach you must be a master of the subject at hand. But the reality is you can give your students problems to tackle even if you don't know everything about how to solve them. You don't have to shy away from teaching future-ready skills like coding, because you don't know how to code. A good friend of mine, Aaron Eden, addressed this in his article Teaching without Knowing, and Finding Problems to Solve. Aaron asserts that if we want our students to become expert learners we as teachers must model advanced learning. He believes that having to know everything in advance limits how we approach education. That is, if we want our students to develop skill in tackling unsolved questions and topics shouldn't teachers also develop this skill? How can we develop the critical skills we so…

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