This Channel will focus on Education based on Conceptual Knowledge and Skills.
We want our students’ learning to be enduring, enabling them to make sense of complexity now and in the future. For this to occur, we need to nudge students beyond the learning of facts and skills to uncover concepts—transferable ideas that transcend time, place, and situation.
By intentionally designing learning activities in which students move between the factual and conceptual levels of thinking, we can help them construct understanding, facilitate a transfer, and build their sense of agency.
• Concept-Based units focus on using content—topics, facts, and skills—to
investigate the relationship between concepts.