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They had no time to learn how to learn to successfully complete the task I saw, nor any task to any standard that would constitute real learning.

It was simply a case of poor school-wide planning, outsourcing the idea of deep learning to students and then “managing” the obvious and predictable resulting stress by telling the students they needed to “focus” and be better organised.

To learn to learn takes time. In cognition, and in the development of thinking, educators talk about a growth mindset. They discuss the development of neural pathways that create deeper ways of thinking and knowing.

Learning to learn does not easily come from drowning in too much work.

“TIME

TAKES TIME”

Experience comes with the passing of time. It cannot authentically be gleaned from books or movies and it cannot be “created or manufactured” through memorised template answers. Learning to learn requires that schools and families create structures that allow time for real, deep learning. Not move at a pace so fast that nothing is learned except how to do what is necessary to get by.