Are they nuts? These are kids. They don’t know anything. They don’t know that they don’t know anything. This is a complete abandonment of a teacher’s responsibility. Lazy teachers and dumb kids, on the taxpayers’ dime.
There needs to be a blend of both the giving and discovery of facts. It is one thing to have head knowledge but if not coupled with the hands-on discovery which constructivism brings, it remains just facts and not true knowledge.
Yes, constructivism takes time. But there needs to be time given to it. Such activity used to be called “labs.”
I'm not completely convinced of that. Some information literacy models that are constructivist in nature such as the web quest, an activity in which students solve problems through the use of online resources, have won widespread critical acclaim in the education community.
It’s a new in name only. One of our HS mathematics teachers
forthrightly said “this method we must use to teach you
is called ‘the discovery method’. It doesn’t work.”
Don’t get me started on Constructivism. I have to get some sleep.
Only to say that “educators” are the greatest threat to education (teamed with teachers’ unions).
(BTW, I’m a teacher, please don’t call me an educator, ever)