Lucie deLaBruere summarizes a visit to the "the vibrant classroom of Dr. Jackie Gerstein and her students," a welcome relief, she writes, "against a backdrop of daily newspaper articles featuring stories of budget woes by surrounding Arizona schools, aging computers, inadequate bandwidth, and exhausted supplies where students are bringing in printer ink and paper from home." Here's more from Jackie Gerstein. Do check her PageFlakes page for a good article, Imagining Schools Without Grades (you'll have to dig for it, PageFlakes has it locked in and buried and hence unlinkable). deLaBruere's post is a nice counter to the grouches who have been attaching the very idea of "21st century learning" recently. Perhaps such cranks should take note that, as Tom Hoffman observes, creative and critical thinking are what the community wants.
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