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.
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