Monica
Stop at the library and have a look at the beautiful midnight pictures by Renato Roque, a Portuguese photographer enchanted by the midnight sun on Trondheim fjord. The project is also available at http://www.renatoroque.com/12pm/12pm.html
I have been teaching for many years project based courses at the university and I see that pre- and elementary schools are facing similar challenges. When we go beyond a notion of learning as acquisition of factual knowledge or of specific techniques, we are facing difficult questions like: what is a good learning experience? How we promote growth of individuals and of the complex social networks they belong to? How do we create contexts to promote learning? How do we assess learning?
Difficult questions…it is much easier to think that we can measure learning with “universal” tests of some type! But can we? How dangerous is it to refuse addressing these challenging questions?