Glenna Knox

We were here all day today, and almost every class we saw  looked nothing like the classes I remember from high school. I think there was  only one class we saw where there was a teacher standing in the front of the  room writing on something with the kids listening. Is that just this place? Is  it new? What does it represent?

It's new, and it's at this place, and it's at others as well. It's something  that's just starting, and it's the idea that with a teacher in front of a  classroom telling children things, it doesn't go anywhere. Nothing happens with  that. If the students aren't active and doing something, they're not going to be  learning. Part of this is based in constructivist learning. There's more  research on this that shows that when students are doing things -- when they're  building things, when they're working with stuff, when they're active -- they'll  learn. ...