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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't think we should have Project Based Learning models for math or mathematical aspect of science.  Not all subjects should be project based.

However, these models should work for social studies and arts.  The traditional teaching passes outdated facts to the students. Students were trained to memorizing bunch of wrong facts.  Example - Pluto used to be a planet when I was in elementary school. Most of our college courses, especially upper level ones, are based on Project Based Learning models.  The teachers should guide the students how to to do research, how to pick the right source, discard the junk, and how to organize and present the materials.

Yes, there are lazy cheaters in the Project Based Learning models.  Do you have such teammates at your work place, too?  This is real world learning.[/quote]

This is not "real world learning" it is lazy instruction. It doesn't matter what you call Pluto, because you were taught it is real and orbits the the sun by an engaged instructor. Without that engaged instructor you would not be able to discuss it or use it as an example today. Quality instructors provide students with multi dementional reasons why and how phenomenon occurs then allow students to solve problems based on a toolbox full of facts. Flipped and PBL teachers flat out refuse to teach their students any FACTS.

It is madness for teachers to be tasked with educating our children and then to require children to learn the most rudimentary concepts of the subject matter themselves. Faced with this zero instruction teaching model some high achieving students will teach themselves, but most cannot.

Solving problems in groups maybe fine for groups of engineers at Google who already have advanced degrees in computer technology from Stanford and MIT, but it is madness to apply this a teaching technique to children who enter math, chemistry, physics, English, history, and government classes with virtually no preexisting knowledge of the subject matter whatsoever.

Stop Flipped Classroom and Project Based Learning in Fairfax Public Schools - NOW![/quote]

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