Tools of Learning

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Whether you are a teacher, a parent, or in any other way teach youth, please listen to this short film. You and I learned with the tools that were available to us. Tools that were familiar to us. The tools have changed. More strongly than even I ask that you consider closely how you interact with youth and consider carefully what limits you are putting on the tools available to them, those tools that are familiar to them.



Credit to 'bjnesbitt'

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