"... a thousand dreams of tears..."

- That jlk kid said, "We're going to read a paper from Mark Guzdial about problem-based learning". I cried a little bit. It doesn't need to take 30 pages to explain "you know, we want kids to do interesting projects -- so's we can larn them something". Awesome.

- Other things are fairly entertaining. Hooray for self-mandated afternoon track practices :)

I don't know what to do.

Edutech makes me want to get out of school and into the workforce. This class. This class, oh my god, makes me want to claw my eyes out. I realized today that I spent four and a half hours sitting and listening to people talk about things that I either already knew or didn't find interesting in the slightest.

I'm perfectly capable of learning things by means of reading a book. Your research does nothing for me. Yes, in order to learn things, people should do Personally Meaningful Projects. Yes, learning is an active process. No, I don't care how you would classify a particular set of buzzwords, whether it counts as "Problem Based" or "Project Based" or "Cognitive Apprenticeship". These are not things in the real world. These are categories that people (such as yourself) made up.

It might not be school-in-general. It might just be edutech. I think I can see the value in taking a class on computability and algorithms and stuff, or about language design or AI. These are things I need to know, I think.

Janet, you make industry very tempting, though. (metasyntactic expletive)+

But I'm 23 years old, and I've spent the last 17 of those years in classrooms. Maybe it's time to not be in a classroom anymore.