דיון חשוב שרצוי שיתקיים גם אצלנו

I could not agree more, but only in the context of classes from about 7th grade up. What I want the Constructivist/Education 2.0 folks to address is the transition up to that point with younger students. It doesn’t suddenly happen ….

When are children too young to “produce” NEW questions and how do we lead them into this process?

I think that it is important that we try NOT to teach that “no one source is THE source”. Instead, we should simply teach that source is important. In the primary grades, it has very little to do with citations, and more to do with the conversations that are already happening. If a teacher stands in front of his class and says that the world is like this, or grocery stores are like this, then that teacher is teaching his student to assume the authority of THE source. However, if the teacher says that according to this source, this person, or this logic, the world is like this, or according to Sally Johnson, the manager of our Piggly Wiggly store, grocery stores provide this… – and that is part of every conversation, then the teacher is teaching students that the source of the information is as important as the information itself.