Relevant more now

Yes, I am following Scott McLeod's blog, it is called 'dangerously irrelevant' and there is a link to it on a previous entry.  I find McLeod's approach extremely relevant even though it must be considered by some as very unconventional.  I think if our goal is a healthy and vibrant learning environment and developing healthy and engaged students is a real goal of ours, as educators, then we must really think about what are goal is in the classroom.  McLeod is pretty clear than we must prefer to nurture learners over memorizers.  He brings in his Nov. 5th entry a link to an article at wired.com called "In this classroom knowledge is overrrated."  The subject is a classroom in Harlem, New York where learning in groups and student-driven learning is chosen and implemented in favor of frontal teaching lessons.  I think we need to continue to follow McLeod.