Originally Posted by HowlerKarma
I think that what most critics are concerned/suspicious about is that it seems to be just the latest FAD in education philosophy.

The more troubling thing about that is that good educators have always used in-class applications/discussion/activities in order to promote learning, and have always (or nearly so) included outside-of-class reading, research, or exercises to better utilize class time-- which begs the question--

where have these educational theorists been observing and spending their time, eh?

Probably not in those classrooms, right? And what is it with this need to embrace EXTREMES?? How much more evidence will it take before those rolling out educational "change" finally figure out that extremes (in testing-obsessed teaching, in homework, in pedagogy, etc) really do NOT work for very many students at a time?

Agree completely. I don't even see why some people would elevate it to the level where it even needs a name.