Is there anything new under the sun?

I ran across a blog today titled "A School with No Teachers, Where Students Teach Themselves" (http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2013/09/a-school-with-no-teachers-where-students-teach-themselves/). It reminded me somewhat of the paradigm we used with our school in Los Angeles, based on School of Tomorrow (Accelerated Christian Education) where the students sat in study carrels and worked on self-paced workbooks. This system, however, is totally exploratory in which the students learn by solving real-world problems in IT on computers. One individual was quoted, “I had a hard time following in school. They forbid us to talk in class. And here, talking together and passing along tips is the key to succeeding.” Sounds pretty constructivist to me. Check it out.