Why Web 2.0 Will Not Be an Integral Part of K-12 Education
Daniel Willingham, Britannica Blog, October 27, 2008.

Yawn. Daniel Willingham is misleading on learning styles, and he is misinformed on web 2.0. The Web 2.0 objection to instructivist teaching is not that students cannot learn - of course they can; if you drill a student enough, they will learn anythging. It's that they learn the wrong things, and they learn too narrowly. They emerge from instructivist methods unable to make their own decisions and to learn for themselves, and unable to navigate through complex phenomena. Indeed, if you ask me the real objection a certain social-political demographic has against progressive learning is not that students fail to learn, but rather, that students fail to be indoctrinated. Willingham demonstrates no awareness that this is what is at issue here, instead using the value-laden term 'success' like it's predefined. (Hits Today: 0 Total: 1)

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Re: Why Web 2.0 Will Not Be an Integral Part of K-12 Education

Dan Willingham, October 27, 2008

Stephen
This is very interesting, but has little to do with what I wrote.

I didn't write about the web2.0 objection to instructivist teaching, nor about any objections that I, or others (whatever their social-political demographic) have to web2.0 teaching. I was asked to comment on other essays in the forum, and I elected to comment on Steve Hargadon's version of Web2.0 teaching (at least his version of it in this forum) which focused on collaborative student projects. What I *did* write about was why it's been so hard to execute project-based learning in the past, and to speculate on whether those problems would be solved by putting these projects in a web2.0 environment.

Dan

PS: Given that it appeared in the adjacent post on your site, I assume that it was from my post that you were alerted to Kilpatrick's essay on the project method. A hat tip would have been nice. [Comment] [Permalink] [Previous][Next]

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