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"At the Buck Institute for Education (BIE), we've been keeping a list of the many types of "_____- based learning" we've run across over the years: Case-based learning Challenge-based learning Community-based learning Design-based learning Game-based learning Inquiry-based learning Land-based learning Passion-based learning Place-based learning Problem-based learning Proficiency-based learning Service-based learning Studio-based learning Team-based learning Work-based learning . . . and our new fave . . . "

""What are you doing in your classroom now, that you could turn over to your students to do themselves?""

Occupy Wall Street and US Education: The BIG point America misses with regard to the Finnish system: Equity! An old article but brings up some interesting aspects of edu-reform...it's actually going to take societal reform...oops my left wing is showing again!

"In their book, Turning Learning Right Side Up: Putting Education Back on Track, authors Russell L. Ackoff and Daniel Greenberg point out that today's education system is seriously flawed -- it focuses on teaching rather than learning. "Why should children -- or adults -- be asked to do something computers and related equipment can do much better than they can?" the authors ask in the following excerpt from the book. "Why doesn't education focus on what humans can do better than the machines and instruments they create?" "Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth learning can be taught." -- Oscar Wilde"

Standardilzed tests and growth mindset... 

Great argument on why we place so much emphasis and credibility on letter grades. All of my students need more time, so this is a great article I will share with all my inclusion teachers.