Wow. If this video doesn't summarize the pedagogical questions we are wrestiling with in education, I don't know what does.
Is either teacher completely right? Completely wrong? Definite content to ponder, here...
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/digitalnation/learning/concentration/old-school-new-school.html
Wish I could have gotten the video to embed. May try tomorrow when I'm more awake!
Thanks to @wfryer for tweeting this.