What's knowledge without skills to find it?

Teaching your subject matter is great and essential. But if you don't leave your students with transferable skills, not only will they forget the content they learned, but they won't be able to get it back.

Connectivism is a learning theory that suggests students learn best when they know where and how to find information, rather than just internalizing information teachers have deemed best to present them with.

This theory ties in to the ISTE standards because it's all about giving students tools to learn in a digital world. More than any other standard, connectivism comes alongside the first: "Empowered learner."

https://www.iste.org/standards/standards/for-students

An empowered learner takes "an active role in choosing... their learning goals." Rather than simply constructing knowledge and meaning internally when guided by a teacher, an empowered learner goes out looking for the many different areas of knowledge themselves because they have the tools to find the diamonds in the rough.

If we do not provide students skills to be masters of their own learning, we may have more job security but are doing them a disservice in the end.