In short, it establishes a context for learning from which to
   teach within that is relevant. Those skills learned are
   transferable to different cases, and I think will be more likely
   to remembered, rather than homework and testing which is quickly
   forgotten. - Summary Well, school have curriculum.* Its based on
   a "bucket theory of mind."* Stuff it in. They're trying to
   improve it and I give credit for their trying.* They're making
   steps to try to improve rational thinking skills, although I
   don't agree with their methodology. But the disassociated nature
   of education is bothersome.* It's boring.* It's boring because
   it's irrelevant to interests.* It's boring because there's no
   reason to care except grades.* Get the grades, move on, forget
   the material and thinking required. What I'm thinking about
   wouldn't change what is being taught.* They can continue
   experimenting with different underlying methodologies for
   teaching mathematics and English and social studies and all of
   those things, like they have been. But the main shift of focus
   would be being engaged.* Feel a need to be there. The new
   theories and the learning of "what already works and is known"
   will necessarily come together because the end product is
   something novel - a solution to an existing problem - or at
   least an attempt of it. "Billy and Sally leave the train station
   at 7:43am and 7:37 respectively.* Billy goes west at 57 km/h and
   Sally goes East at 21 m/h.* How many miles away from origin
   point will Billy be when Sally is 38.5 km away?* What time will
   it be?" This is the kind of question they ask now.* Mix up.*
   Confuse.* Unrealistic.* I know what they're trying to get at,
   but I think education could do better.* A lot better. Within
   each real world problem that is difficult for adults to solve,
   there is a simplified University education along with years of
   relevant work experiences compressed within it, that have to be
   UNROLLED - decompressed - made flat, simplified, taught,
   explained, learned, before they can tackle the issue. it might
   take students and teachers weeks and months to get to a point
   where they can attempt to come up with a solution to the
   problem, because there is a lot of background that has to be
   covered... background that covers all of the areas of school
   they would go through anyway.. but tailored for this particular
   situation. Those skills learned will be transferrable - and most
   importantly REMEMBERED... because it was a case that they were
   involved in that mattered. in some level. "Oh, this is just the
   time we were working on the case of....." etc. - same way that
   Doctors and Lawyers are taught at advanced levels.* It obviously
   works as an educational model.* We already use it.