| Continuity refers to the notion that humans are sensitive to (or are affected by) experience. Humans survive more by learning from experience after they are born than do many other animals who rely primarily on pre-wired instinct. In humans, education is critical for providing people with the skills to live in society. Dewey argued that we learn something from every experience, whether positive or negative and ones accumulated learned experience influences the nature of one's future experiences. Thus, every experience in some way influences all potential future experiences for an individual. Continuity refers to this idea that s each experience is stored and carried on into the future, whether one likes it or not. http://wilderdom.com/experiential/ExperientialDewey.html James Neill
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| Continuity of instruction is especially important in mathematics instruction. If the continuity of instruction is broken, by either lack of student participation or student frustration with the material then the foundation upon which to build future knowledge in weakened. Technology can provide methods to maintain a continuity of instruction and thus strengthening the foundation for future mathematics education.
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"As we have seen there is some kind of continuity in any case since every experience affects for better or worse the attitudes which help decide the quality of further experiences, by setting up certain preference and aversion, and making it easier or harder to act for this or that end." - John Dewey |
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