Learning to Unlearn

In chapter three of our book, it talks about having to unlearn things in the classroom. The world is fast changing and teachers need to keep up with it by unlearning things that may have been useful in the past. This can be somewhat difficult for teachers because they don't want to change or leave their past knowledge behind. To meet the needs of new students in the classroom today, teachers need to rethink how they do their jobs and recreate the way they teach so that the students in classroom learn as much as possible. In the classroom, teachers need to unlearn things and reconstruct their new knowledge of new things to fit the needs of the students in their classroom.

Teachers need to learn new things in order to keep their classrooms up to date with current information and technology. If the teacher properly knows how to use new things, like technology, it is only going to benefit the students in the classroom. With things changing so quickly, teachers need to adapt quicker then ever to the new knowledge and information or there classroom is going to be way behind. According to our book, The Connected Educator, teachers should construct three types of knowledge in their classroom: passive (knowledge for), active (knowledge in), and reflective (knowledge of) to provide newest up to date information to their classroom.