Education scientist Sugata Mitra tackles one of the greatest problems of education -- the best teachers and schools don't exist where they're needed most. In a series of real-life experiments from New Delhi to South Africa to Italy, he gave kids self-supervised access to the web and saw results that could revolutionize how we think about teaching.
Why is it so hard to let go and let the students drive the learning process?
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Technology and the spread of revolutions
- The uprisings had a strong assist from contemporary technology
- What else makes Facebook
- The real Facebook revolution is global, and it's only just getting geared up
- Thoughts?
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/TECH/social.media/02/24/facebook.revolution/
A place to vent or a place to share ideas?
What is seen as a forum to "vent" has gotten this teacher in some trouble.Thoughts?
"Teacher strikes nerve with 'lazy whiners' blog: My students are out of control,' teacher wrote in one post, drawing a suspension." http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41618492/ns/us_news-life/
"Teacher strikes nerve with 'lazy whiners' blog: My students are out of control,' teacher wrote in one post, drawing a suspension." http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41618492/ns/us_news-life/
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