In no particular order, things we may want or need to unlearn:
- Reliance on closed knowledge
- The syllabus
- Authority role
- Controlling learning
- Assumptions about learners
- Non-essential questions
- Teacher talk time
- Banking model of education
- Good writing = polished, syntactically “correct” language
- Five-paragraph essay
- Deficit view of students
- Lecture-based instruction (sage on the stage)
- Always having an answer
- Content-centered
- Disposable assignments
- Inauthentic assessment
- Product-centered
- Grading
