Failure to Launch Learning
Photos courtesy of Tom Collett.
“Last week, our class launched a rocket.” Sounds fun, doesn’t it? I wish my class launched a rocket. When I was a kid, we did have some great experiential and project-based learning experiences – but no rockets. Unfortunately, that sentence about rocket-launching isn’t quoted from an actual student or teacher, nor did it orginate from an actual classroom. It’s simply a random, isolated sentence on a worksheet, used by third-graders to prepare for their standardized tests.
While walking to work the other day I was browsing through my Public Radio Player app on the iPhone, and
