Will Richardson is one of my favorite bloggers. Awesome post about the Elephants in the Classroom

In summary (in my words, not his), his elephants are:

• We forget the specific content we are taught
• Students are not connecting to school – the content isn’t relevant to them
• Traditional schools don’t foster learning the way real world learning happens.
• The stuff on tests doesn’t really matter
• Grades are valued more than learning
• “Curriculum” is random (can you say calculus and no statistics? stupid)
• School is the only place subjects are taught in silos. In reality , subjects aren’t separate.

Just read Will’s post.