Review: Needs more data
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 15, 2013
The author's thesis is that education should be more open-ended: students should be more involved in choosing their goals; school work should require more skills than "look up facts on the Interent"; and, underneath it all, school should be arranged to bring out more engagement and commitment in students.I like these ideas, but this essay did not support them well.  It's long on rhetoric, tagging the approaches the author doesn't favor with negative descriptions and the approaches the author does favor with positive descriptions.  And it's short on data.  It's even short on anecdotes: there are only a handful of stories about students learning the "new way" and their projects.  And the first, longest such story is about a student learning to play Minecraft -- that's not very appealing!The thesis is fine, but more data, please.