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The article ends with a challenge - "The remaining question is how?"

How can we ensure that students gifts are acknowledged and nurtured? How can we make our subjects as relevant as possible?

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Finland now teach topics, eg, 'The EU' with all the history, maths, and geography that entails, rather than individual subjects.

Yes, an interesting approach with actual resources behind it. I'm going to watch how that goes. My initial reaction is: we have 'subjects' with names on them partially through tradition but also partly through different 'rules of the game' for each subject (e.g. scientific method vs social critique vs historiography). How will the rules of the various games be taught? Or will there be no mathematics or physics degrees in Finland in 10 years?

A smart way to reform education: http://magarshak.com/blog/?p=158

So the learning happens where? While watching the multimedia presentation? Homeworks are a central part of schooling because doing them is where most of the learning happens. Notetaking has also shown to be highly beneficial to learning. This proposal downplays both of these and replaces them with testing and ipads.

Uggh. A hamster in a cage running. Children would simply refuse to engage, with the 'remedial' classes being flooded with 95% of the pupils.

I live in France so maybe the situation is different here, but I feel like nothing in this article solve any real issues.

Why? Can you go into more detail?

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