Interesting article at Wired: NET EXPERIENCE IS BEST TEACHER

Instead of listening to a lecture about natural selection, for example, kids study the climate, food, and characteristics of a particular species. They research the species using software or the Internet. "They could have learned all of this by reading two paragraphs in a textbook,
but the fact that they have to figure it out for themselves is the real learning."
http://www.wired.com/news/school/0,1383,44869,00.html