Contributions to the superb #TeachingInNC project are, to quote baseball great Yogi Berra, déjà vu all over again.
The names of classroom activities are different, but children today are engaged in tasks that have cycled in and out of public school classrooms for decades.
Whether it is group work, hands-on activities, student-led discussions, or focus on "real world" skills, it is a good bet that previous generations of experts have promoted it, teachers have employed it, and children have suffered through it.