So they will dig into that part of our history, learning more and more. They are no longer mere students but fledgling historians. They start with a piece of evidence, or pieces of evidence, from the past or from science or from natural phenomena. And like detectives, they try to create a story that unites those pieces of evidence or data in a compelling way. That, he points out, is the exact opposite of what schools ask students to do.
Textbooks simply tell a story, and then teachers test kids on whether they've learned the story.
The paradigm of school and its accepted practices have to adapt and change, if technology is to reach its potential. While a teacher can be responsible for 120 students, she cannot work closely with 120 scholars. That didn't happen. In the 1950s it was television's turn to promise a revolution in the way children learn. But that promise was also broken.