Rote learning outdated, irrelevant: ACT Now

Traditionally, education systems and settings tend to focus on passive consumption of knowledge while programming student thinking for routine, habitual and fixed procedures. Learning thus results in the knowledge of how to do something: repeating procedures over and over while re-applying the same knowledge. Yet, studies conducted in various countries emphasize  main competencies that every educational system ought to develop to meet 21st century challenges: creativity, critical thinking, problem solving, and decision making (Kautz, Heckman, Doris, ter Weel, & Borghans, 2017; Wechsler et al., 2018).