There is a neat model of learning called "degrees of learning"- the bottom level is the affective level- with feelings and environment, that is the level where you make students feel comfortable, and secure and liked. Then you get to the level of teaching facts. That is the level of wrote learning. After that you get to the level of refining and extending knowledge. This is the level where you use what you have learned by wrote, and apply it to other things. At the highest level you have "Habits of the Mind"- which is, I think, what Neo is talking about. At this level you abstract principles about the world, about how knowledge works, how we think, you think ABOUT thinking, at this level. ALl the other levels are necessary before you get to "Habits of the Mind"- which is why it is difficult to get there.
There is another way to look a this- which is "things to be familiar with" (dates, names from history, etc), "Useful to know", (how to find areas, how to estimate your shopping bill) and the most important thing is called the "enduring value".
There are many more ways to look at knowledge, but I like those two. |
