Changing the Way we Do Education

This is a very good set of slides with lots of good ideas and links

Quite a series of videos from Jewish day schools which are part of the Digital Jewish Learning Network (DJLN). from what I've watched these videos can help answer quite a few questions about how this is done in real school......if that's what a video etc can do........ the learning continues.

using new media to drive curriculum for the current generation might be sound....it motivates and is creative.....but getting over the hardware & software challenge has to be built into the program

I read this article when it appeared and now it takes on some more significance. Lovely tale but one data point does not a theory prove......i do think that S Mitra is surely on to something important but he works with a wholly different kind of kid than I / we do on these shores. Our kids are numb to problem challenges as they have a disease called 'learned helplessness' that gets in the way of finding most things intriguing or worthy of inquiry for inquiry sake. Discovery math doesn't work because they've got little interest in discovering. Perhaps our school system promotes this or passive TV, whatever it is, it's a rare teacher who can motivate students to be problem solvers once they've done several years of school. To use the language of the article, few of our kids see any need to 'rise out of the well'