What's really worth learning?

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Our world is getting increasingly complex; so how do we know what is worth teaching and learning?

This topic was presented by David Perkins at the IB Heads World Conference: "From teachers to school leaders to makers of national policy, we should be asking what topics are truly likely to matter in the lives today's students will live."

David is the Carl H Pforzheimer Jr Research Professor of Teaching and Learning at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a founding member of the Harvard Project Zero, a research project investigating human symbolic capacities and their development.

Read his full interview on the Huffington Post website.