On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 13:03:27 PM +0200, Michel Bauwens wrote:
http://www.wired.com/business/2013/10/free-thinkers/
a new breed of educators, inspired by everything from the Internet to evolutionary psychology, neuroscience, and AI, are inventing radical new ways for children to learn, grow, and thrive... ...
hardly "radical new". As I tweeted when I first found that piece, this sounds a lot like Scouting as it was meant to be since 1907. Compare:
Teachers provide prompts, not answers, and then they step aside so students can teach themselves and one another.
with, just to name the first 3 pages I found in a 1-minute search: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scout_method#Self-learning or "Learning through doing" in http://infed.org/mobi/robert-baden-powell-as-an-educational-innovator/ and "progressive self-education" in http://scoutdocs.ca/Documents/Fundamental_Principles.php Marco