Www.de-a-arhitectura.ro/de-a_arhitectura.pdf. GROW. A school in the cloud: Sugata Mitra accepted the TED Prize at TED2013. It’s a question on so many minds: what will the future of education look like? Ken Robinson: How schools kill creativity It’s something Sir Ken Robinson has asked for decades. And tonight in Session 3 of TED2013, Robinson got the opportunity to announce the winner of the 2013 TED Prize, someone who has a bold answer. “So many kids are disengaged from education and there’s a tendency to confuse testing with learning,” says Robinson in his introduction. “What drives learning is curiosity, questioning … What fires people up to learn is having their mind opened up by possibilities.” And with that, he revealed the winner of the $1 million TED Prize: education innovator Sugata Mitra, who has given two TED Talks over the years and released a TED ebook called Beyond The Hole in The Wall. Mitra wants children around the globe, in addition to traditional schooling, to get a chance to participate in self-organized learning.
But these skills aren’t as necessary with the advent of computers. Education Without Borders 2013. How the World Wide Web just happened - Tim Berners-Lee. The courage to change. I think all teachers must have times when they’re faced with the decision to continue on the safe road that they know, or radically depart on a way that they believe to be better, but the specific route and outcomes are unknown. At least I’ve been faced with this decision. And in all honesty, sometimes I’ve chosen the former, and sometimes the latter. Although for the last five months, I’ve consistently chosen the latter, and they have been the most challenging and fulfilling five months of my career. What is the path I’ve chosen?
Changing to a student-centered, skill-based, technology embedded classroom. One evening, last semester, I decided to take the plunge, and I haven’t looked back. However, it still isn’t easy to change the new classes I’m teaching this semester. A voice inside my head whispers, “You don’t need to take this chance.” Why do I believe in this? Furthermore, the top 10 jobs in 2010 didn’t exist in 2004. Content is easy. How am I doing this? What did I do? 3. 2. 1. Jumping into the 21st Century: One Teacher’s Account. Teaching Strategies Flickr:AzaRaskin “I think all teachers must have times when they’re faced with the decision to continue on the safe road that they know, or radically depart on a way that they believe to be better, but the specific route and outcomes are unknown,” writes Shelley Wright on the excellent educators blog Voices from a Learning Revolution.
“How often do we want the end result — engaged, articulate, deep discussions — without being willingly to do the hard work to get there?” With honesty and in great detail, Wright talks about how she decided to jump in with both feet to completely reorganize her class structure and the way she teaches. Wright shifted the teacher-centered, textbook-based class to a collaborative learning space, encouraging students to research units individually and in groups, and to help each other. They even created their own online textbook. How did it go? First, my science, technology, and English classes are paperless. But she perseveres. Related. Education: What will happen if the poorest people in the world get the best education in the world. Future of Education - Topics. CTR.ro. Consiliul Tineretului din Romania :: Romania Youth Council.
Mimi Ito - Statics: New Media and Its Superpowers: Learning, Post Pokemon. Learning from Pokemon I always find that the best way into these issues is through Pokemon.Pokemon was and still is a global media sensation that first swept childhood culture in the late nineties. The kids who are graduating from college now are the first post-Pokemon generation. These are kids who grew up with ubiquitous social gaming and convergent media as a central part of their peer culture.
More specifically, it placed portable gaming formats of game boy and trading cards at the center of game play. What's so important about portable media is that it changes the kinds of environments, both physical and social where gaming takes place. Gaming escapes the confines of the home, as kids carry their game boys and in the car, the waiting room, in the park, or on the plane.
And this is not just about gaming infiltrating more and more physical settings, but about gaming infiltrating more social settings and relationships. And it's not just that there is a lot of content. Five Effortless Postures that Foster Creative Thinking. Literally sitting outside a box, rather than in it, makes you more creative, according to new psychological research. There are lots of metaphors floating around in creativity. We talk about ‘thinking outside the box’, ‘putting two and two together’ and ‘seeing both sides of the problem’. But are these only metaphors or can we boost our creativity by taking them literally? We know our minds interact in all sorts of interesting ways with our bodies, so what if we enacted these metaphors physically? That’s the question Leung et al. (2012) examine in a new study published in the journal Psychological Science. This brings together two of my favourite topics here on PsyBlog: creativity and embodied cognition. Across five studies they tested ways of making people more creative by simply changing postures. 1.
Creative ideas are often arrived at by bringing together two apparently unrelated thoughts. 2. ‘Thinking outside the box’ is an awfully overused cliché. 3. 4. It did. 5. And lie down. The relationship between child’s play and scientific exploration. Laura Schulz, an associate professor of brain and cognitive sciences at MIT, has always been interested in learning and education. At the age of 6, she tried teaching her 3-year-old sister to read, an effort that met with limited success. “She did eventually learn to read, wrote a book, and is now even a book reviewer, but I think I had very little to do with it,” Schulz recalls. “It went swimmingly at the letter A, and by the time we got to the letter B she wanted to go play in the sandbox, so that was the end of that.” Schulz has devoted her academic career to investigating how learning takes place during early childhood.
Starting in infancy, children are quickly able to learn a great deal about how the world works, based on a very limited amount of evidence. “All of these abilities that we think of as scientific abilities emerged because of the hardest problem of early childhood learning, which is how to get accurate abstract representations from sparse, noisy data,” she says. Educate The Heart - Prepare our children for this world. About Q2L | Quest to Learn. Quest to Learn supports all students in the pursuit of academic excellence, social responsibility, respect for others, and a passion for lifelong learning. The school is committed to seeing every student achieve the excellence required for college and career, and enabling every student to develop the skills and habits of mind needed to navigate successfully today's increasingly complex, information-rich global world.
Quest to Learn supports a uniquely vibrant learning community that brings together students, educators, game designers, curriculum specialists and parents. This community is committed to student success with a singular focus, but also recognizes that student success ultimately depends on the commitment of each and every community member to his or her own continuous learning and participation. The learning community Quest to Learn supports extends far beyond the walls of the school, deep into the cultural fabric of the New York City, and beyond, across the globe. Tehnologia va schimba dramatic felul în care elevii învață și profesorii transmit informația. 10 Great Ideas Someone Should Invent. This article might change your life or make you rich.
It’s time to save the world. There’s a lot of bad news out there. Rising unemployment, soldiers being replaced in their jobs by drones that kill babies, a new housing crisis that will end all housing crises, who is the real father of Kim Kardashian’s child, and on and on. Meanwhile, many futurists are at work on “what’s new for 2013?” Will Lindsay Lohan play Princess Leia’s daughter in the new Star Wars movies? Will Tiger Woods make a comeback? Forget about 2013 and Princess Leia.
The idea muscle atrophies, just like any other muscle. Let’s come up with some real ideas that can save the world. A) I wrote down an idea here but I deleted it. B) Klout as currency. Oprah has an infinite Klout score. Klout + currrency = value in today’s world. (In all respect to Josh Gosfeld, author of “The Art of Doing,” I just stole the idea you told me you were going to do a science-fiction novel about. C) Use Global Warming to Solve Global Warming.
Susan Sontag's radical vision for remixing education. A Liberal Decalogue: Bertrand Russell's 10 Commandments of Teaching. The Institute For Figuring // Exhibition:INVENTING KINDERGARTEN. Of the forces that supposedly brought modern art into being, a wide range of factors have been cited - industrialization, the “machine age,” and psychosexual emancipation. Though kindergarten has never been “fodder for argument over absinthe and Gauloises in Montmartre cafes,” Bosterman suggests that its influence on modern art “has been largely ignored because its participants were in the primary band of the scholastic spectrum.” To which we may add that the gender of its practitioners was overwhelmingly female. In the standard narratives of art-historical criticism, women are not only absent from the canon of modern masters, but female activities, interests and occupations have been cast as mostly irrelevant to the movement itself. This exhibition challenges that view, locating women and children at the origin of this aesthetic upheaval.
Collaborative Workspace | Meeting Rooms | Innovation | Idea Engineering | Shoreditch. Features. There's a moment in the history of medicine that's so cinematic it's a wonder no one has put it in a Hollywood film. The scene is a London laboratory in 1928. Alexander Fleming, a Scottish microbiologist, is back from a holiday and is cleaning up his work space. He notices that a speck of mould has invaded one of his cultures of Staphylococcus bacteria. But it isn't just spreading through the culture. Fleming rescued the culture and carefully isolated the mould. No one at the time could have known how good penicillin was.
Continue reading. Casa ecologică. The STEAM Movement in Education | Minds Enabled. Innovation has long been the driving engine for many countries and is the critical x-factor for which there can be no substitute. The STEM initiative, while laudable, is missing one critical ingredient… Art. For a long time, Art education and Science education seemed to be thought of as opposite poles on a continuum with free-thinking, loosey-goosey, unconstrained, anything-goes, visual arts on one extreme, and the rigid, hard-and-fast, unbreakable, unfeeling rules of mathematics on the other. Students were shuffled between both experiences in the lower grades until they were required to choose one to stick with, around the beginning of high school. Many view the STEM topics as where the real learning happened. A successful education in Math or Sciences would lead them down the road to a good university, and therefore a good job, a secure financial future, and a long happy life. “Art is where it begins!”
You Might Like: #PSP2012 VIDEO – KR. Sir Ken Robinson concludes the morning sessions of “Teaching and Learning at Home and at School” by inviting educators and parents to collaborate in the design of a covenant of shared principles to transform our schools. First, Robinson identifies an agenda of issues on which we need to focus as we move forward: vexing economic, cultural, and personal challenges with which our education system has not caught up.
Then, Robinson asserts that our current system is incapable of dealing properly with these challenges, owing to a ‘command and control mentality’ among political leaders, and invites stakeholders at the grassroots level — in our classrooms, and in our homes — to create an agenda not just for reform, but for transformation. Further information and related resources are provided below the embedded video. To advance the presentation to key transitions, drag the slider to the indicated timeframes: Why is Creativity Important in Education? | Creativity in Education. Share this Episode Please select a language: Autoplay End of Video Show End Screen Default Quality Adjust your embed size below, then copy and paste the embed code above. Community Translation Episode available in 6 languages Available Translations: Join the Community Translation Project Thanks for your interest in translating this episode!
Please Confirm Your Interest Thanks for your interest in adding translations to this episode! An error occurred while processing your request. Another translator has already started to translate this episode. Thanks for Participating! This episode has been assigned to you and you can expect an e-mail shortly containing all the information you need to get started. About This Episode A conversation with Sir Ken Robinson, Author and Creativity Expert. Creativity and Education - Sir Ken Robinson. No Teachers, No Class, No Homework; Would You Send Your Kids Here? - Emily Chertoff. Democratic schooling may be the most radical experiment in education of the past 100 years. A.S. Neill in a Summerhill classroom. The image is undated. (Associated Press) In Massachusetts farm country, not far from Boston, a group of about 200 students of all ages are part of a radical experiment. These students don't take any classes they don't specifically ask to have taught.
They can spend their time doing whatever they want, as long as it's not destructive or criminal -- reading, playing video games, cooking, making art. Sudbury Valley School will this spring find itself one focus of a book by the psychologist and Boston College professor Peter Gray, whose own son attended Sudbury Valley in the 1980s. "He clearly was unhappy in school, and very rebellious," Gray said of his son in a phone interview. Gray wound up becoming a developmental and learning psychologist in order to do a study of Sudbury outcomes. There are schools that purport to directly teach those values. A Brief History of Education. When we see that children everywhere are required by law to go to school, that almost all schools are structured in the same way, and that our society goes to a great deal of trouble and expense to provide such schools, we tend naturally to assume that there must be some good, logical reason for all this.
Perhaps if we didn't force children to go to school, or if schools operated much differently, children would not grow up to be competent adults. Perhaps some really smart people have figured all this out and have proven it in some way, or perhaps alternative ways of thinking about child development and education have been tested and have failed. In previous postings I have presented evidence to the contrary. In particular, in my August 13 posting , I described the Sudbury Valley School, where for 40 years children have been educating themselves in a setting that operates on assumptions that are opposite to those of traditional schooling.
Agriculture gradually changed all that. 52 Education Blogs You Should Follow.