Deeper learning schools use teaching strategies that have long been considered good practice, like project - based learning, long -
term cumulative assessments, advisory classes, and block scheduling.
One way, I believe, to address the problem of under - reporting and increase the chances a concussion will be identified early on the sports sideline may be to rely less on athletes themselves to remove themselves from games or practices by reporting concussion symptoms (which the most recent study shows occurs at a shockingly low rate, [9] or on game officials and sideline observers to observe signs of concussion and call for a concussion
assessment, but to employ technology to increase the chances that a concussion will be identified by employing impact sensors designed to monitor head impact exposure in
terms of the force of hits (both linear and rotational), number, location, and
cumulative impact, in real time at all levels of football, and in other helmeted and non-helmeted contact and collision sports, where practical, to help identify high - risk impacts and alert medical personnel on the sideline so they can consider performing a concussion
assessment.
Until we begin to focus on a nuanced
assessment of short
term, long
term,
cumulative and ambiguous risks, and until we form adult understandings of the concepts of robust and brittle designs, we will continue in these same tired arguments.