fazer semanalmente online curtos testes (“quizzes”), para revisão frequente da matéria e avaliação dos alunos. Fazer testes curtos e frequentes é uma técnica antiga — pretende-se que os estudantes vão acompanhando a matéria e percebam onde estão a falhar. A inovação consiste em automatizar esses testes, de forma a que os alunos possam obter imediatamente a correcção das respostas e a sua classificação.

Os tais “bons resultados” referiam-se apenas ao entusiasmo dos alunos. Não a uma melhoria da sua aprendizagem.

Time To Know believes there are three main reasons why today’s classroom is ineffective

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But now, anyone with good critical thinking skills and the ability to focus on the important information can retrieve it on demand from the Internet, rather than her own memory

human memory will no longer be the key repository of knowledge, and focus will supersede erudition

how well an employee can focus might now be more important than how knowledgeable he is

children should be making things, communicating, exploring, sharing,not running office automation tools

Our kids’ futures will require them to be: Networked–They’ll need an “outboard brain.” More collaborative–They are going to need to work closely with people to co-create information. More globally aware–Those collaborators may be anywhere in the world. Less dependent on paper–Right now, we are still paper training our kids. More active–In just about every sense of the word. Physically. Socially. Politically. Fluent in creating and consuming hypertext–Basic reading and writing skills will not suffice. More connected–To their communities, to their environments, to the world. Editors of information–Something we should have been teaching them all along but is even more important now.