Sorry man, but I completely disagree with your assumption that this is being tried everywhere in the US. Perhaps what is being tried in some places is scientifi

Sorry man, but I completely disagree with your assumption that this is being tried everywhere in the US. Perhaps what is being tried in some places is scientific approach to teaching, but never to learning. Plus, it is also a problem of paradigms, in the Kuhniam sense. People are stuck with the instructionist paradigm, and with the implementation of that model, that was built with old media as a vehicle. Dr. Carl Wieman words are a nice way to see that (here is a presentation of the same material http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/560 http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/560). You could also check out Alan Kay's, Jerome Bruner's and others, specially Seymour Papert (like this for example http://www.papert.org/articles/const_inst/const_inst1.html http://www.papert.org/articles/const_inst/const_inst1.html) Again, the paradigm of most people who are doing science in education is not adequate and leads to apathy, evasion and several other problems we see today.