After having watched the videos on PBL course site, I'm quite positive that students learn more and in the process have fun with it. Critical thinking is crucial to future of education. Instead of asking 'what should I do?' the question should be 'can I think of another way?'. Of course, the first steps are always the hardest and they take a lot of trial and failiure. But failiure is not the reason to stop, but to think of a different approach and that's how human intelligence grows. There's an old saying I've heard somewhere: 'Those who can - DO, those who can't - TEACH'. Is that what's stopping us? Maybe it was true in the past, but these days teachers CAN and DO too. Many stick to the traditional way of seeing things and they get displeased with what they see. Results oriented learning is shallow. Once the student achieves certain grade or the day passes, they never look back. And then, in few years they need to get hands-on but they don't even remember what they need or what they learned because their learning was linear, not matrix.
So, we are the only ones stopping ourselves. Sure we can blame everyone and everything around us, but deep down we all know that 'the shut door only means we should figure out how to make way through the window'.
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