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Research Myth 12: We Don’t Need To Teach Facts


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John Dabell

I trained as a primary school teacher 25 years ago, starting my career in London and then I taught in a range of schools in the Midlands. In between teaching jobs, I worked as an Ofsted inspector (no hate mail please!), national in-service provider, project...
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Is it a myth that teachers do not need to teach knowledge anymore?

Knowledge is dead, long live Google.

Myth?

We can all rely on knowledge being ‘out there’ because all we have to do is ‘Google it’. We therefore don’t need to teach knowledge, instead teach children how to learn and other 21st century future-proof skills. But how true is this idea? Is teaching knowledge obsolete or is this a myth?

The idea that we don’t need to teach and acquire knowledge any more is complete nonsense because as Daisy Christodoulou (2014) says:

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1st April 201821st September 2021 by John Dabell
Posted in Academic Research, Basic Account, CPD, CurriculumTagged 21st century skills, Daisy Christodoulou, Education, Google, Knowledge, Myths, Parents and Teachers for Excellence, Schools, self-educate, teaching

2 thoughts on “Research Myth 12: We Don’t Need To Teach Facts”

  1. Andy says:
    1st April 2018 at 7:57 am

    Please provide references for claims that ‘we therefore don’t need to teach knowledge but just teach children how to learn’.

  2. Jenny says:
    1st April 2018 at 3:34 pm

    Refreshing reading. I have heard many school leaders and governor’s who have been seduced by the skills curriculum.

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