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April 11, 2012 07:45 pm PDT
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Designing curriculum for people doing stuff, not people passing tests
Joi Ito, director of the MIT Media Lab, posts a personal essay called "Reading the dictionary," which describes the traditional school curriculum as equivalent to asking students to read the dictionary or an encyclopedia from cover to cover. He contrasts this with his own style of learning, "interest-driven learning" ("code for 'short attention span' or [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/A2a5HS5gQ3I/designing-curriculum-for-peopl.html
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