Thanks for the response. B) sounds great -- I'll be very curious to see how it's implemented!
A critique of the common school system is that it encourages simply giving the answers the system seeks, rather than a healthier and more realistic method of encouraging exploration of problems and spaces and perhaps guiding the student along their journey of discovery (and as a result encouraging innovation, creativity, curiosity, etc.). So I definitely would love to see the problems go beyond this!
As an afterthought: I imagine teaching requires these sort of innovative abilities as well. KhanAcademy seems to work fairly well as it is, however there are always more, different and better answers to how learning outcomes can be improved -- they just need to be explored. (Isn't it funny how KhanAcademy is constantly in the spotlight to be the best -- I could imagine the pressure :)!
A critique of the common school system is that it encourages simply giving the answers the system seeks, rather than a healthier and more realistic method of encouraging exploration of problems and spaces and perhaps guiding the student along their journey of discovery (and as a result encouraging innovation, creativity, curiosity, etc.). So I definitely would love to see the problems go beyond this!
As an afterthought: I imagine teaching requires these sort of innovative abilities as well. KhanAcademy seems to work fairly well as it is, however there are always more, different and better answers to how learning outcomes can be improved -- they just need to be explored. (Isn't it funny how KhanAcademy is constantly in the spotlight to be the best -- I could imagine the pressure :)!