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Will Existing Mental Models Threaten Post-pandemic Progress in Education?

Catlin Tucker

I fear schools will revert to what is comfortable and what aligns with existing mental models instead of questioning the status quo, taking inventory of the lessons learned this year, and paving a new path forward. The Power of Mental Models. Teacher training programs likely reinforced those mental models.

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Sir Ken Robinson: A Brief In Memoriam [guest post]

Dangerously Irrelevant

Yet, according to Gallup polling of students , more high school students are actively disengaged in school than are engaged. This year, 2020, has shown with stark clarity the implications of these failures. He offered a different mental model through a new metaphor. We have achieved near-universal basic literacy.