Hey, Look! I'm Radical!

By Lee Skallerup Bessette. There was recently a piece in Wired praising a new, radical teaching method that is sweeping...a classroom in Mexico. It will produce geniuses, truly! A whole generation of them! To say I was skeptical about this article when I read the title is an understatement, and I actually actively avoided reading it for almost a whole day. I was glad to see that what the article was talking about was actually “just” peer-driven learning, something I have been doing for a few years now in my classroom. I’m not sure if I’m producing geniuses or not, but I am creating (I hope) more motivated and engaged students, not to mention more aware of their educations. Read more...