November 4, 2013

Grammar Out, Immersion In?

From Grant Boulanger: Ben, Here’s an interesting article. This guy is a friend of a friend and RIGHTLY attacks the grammar-centric curriculum. He is an ally in that regard. However, he suggests appropriating from the language immersion model the idea of content as driving the curriculum. Teach them age appropriate stuff about math in French […]

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Smart Phones

Daniel Navar sent this link: http://www.thedailyriff.com/articles/21-things-that-will-become-obsolete-in-education-by-2020-474.php He commented: The technocrats think that “Language acquisition is only a smartphone away.” What BS.

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