On Learning

".......a campaign for a child's right to good learning, which is "real, honest and wholesome." Textbooks are the equivalent of processed food -- they are processed learning. The learning's all been done for you. As Dan Meyer says, you just have to know how to decode the text and you get the answers easily. If you don't mind this tedious task, you'll do well. But it's not real learning. It's not what we experience when we learn in real life "

Read on.... http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/04/good-learning.html