This too long to summarize and too excellent not to offer in full. Professors John Seely Brown, Dava Newman, and John Belcher (all currently working at MIT) on the development of teaching methods that foster creativity, innovative thinking, productive collaboration, rigorous self- and peer-assessment, intellectual curiosity and risk-taking, and playfulness--everything that we talk about as being essential to "21st-century learning."
It's 97 minutes, but you can watch it in segments--don't miss the Q&A at the end:
UPDATE, June 2012: The video is no longer available for embed--but here's the link.
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