Unlearning before learning

Posted by: Dr Ashley Tan on: January 25, 2019

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My dad always said, “The eyes see and the ears hear what’s already in the mind.” Our perception becomes our reality. Sometimes learning is the easy part. It’s the unlearning that’s hard. Every so often it’s important to ask ourselves & even others, “What might I be wrong about?”

— Amy Fast, Ed.D. (@fastcrayon) January 21, 2019

I read this recent tweet and decided to make an image quote out of some of it.

Unlearning is hard. With older learners, unlearning is often prerequisite to learning. Old habits die hard, if at all. You must break before you can make.

In edu-speak, we might point out the importance of deconstructing before constructing. If we encourage learners to build on the wrong foundations or with questionable materials, we are at fault for rushing with the building instead of starting with the tedious work of deconstructing.

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