How Bill Gates' Favorite Teacher Wants to Disrupt Education Sal Khan" /> In 2008, Sal Khan had a bright future making millions as a hedge fund manager. He gave it up to produce low-budget math films on YouTube for free. Fortunately, hidden among his millions of loyal students, were the wealthiest of educational philanthropists, Bill Gates and the Google Foundation. Now, with a whole lot of cash and even more street cred, Khan aims to demote the institution of "school" to just one of many educational options. Beginnings Khan Academy, the YouTube open-course series, began as verbal contract with a 7th-grade girl. Since YouTube encouraged universal access, Khan thought “Why not? “Random people started watching it, and I started getting good feedback,” Khan tells Fast Company. The Success Factor and Company Growth To his amazement, the videos were far more popular than his dedicated tutoring sessions. Five years and dozens of lessons later, the YouTube series was reaching tens of thousands of views a day. The Motivation Changes to the System
星期一的 TEDtalk: The World Needs All Kinds of Thinking 星期一感覺世界變得有點快，大家都在趕，分享兩個今天早上看到的景象。 642 公車在新生南路上，8:52 AＭ 的陽光照進來,看到了“新"。 初春的台北，天空格外清爽，還沒長出來的新芽和尚未凋謝的舊葉，美的像一幅畫。 星期一的上午需要一點不同思考，今天分享 Temple Grandin 在 2010 TED 的演講，Temple 是自閉症患者，從小有著跟別人不一樣的學習思考模式，她是一個“圖像思考”(visual thinker)的人，她說“我的腦就像 Google for Images.”其實有很多的創意天才都有輕微的自閉症，叫做亞思柏格症狀 (asperger syndrome)，像是 Steven Spielberg、莫札特、愛因斯坦都有輕微的 asperger，他們在 social skills 並不強，甚至會害怕和人群接觸但是在某一方面的思考卻是很突出比如說邏輯、圖像、語言等等。 中文版字幕演講由大小創意提供，原版的演講如下： 除了 TED 的演講外，您也可以收聽 Temple Grandin 在 NPR 的專訪。 今年七月的 TEDxTaipei 我們會談到另類教育 (Alternative Education)，如果您對這方面有研究或是有想推薦的講者，請跟我們連絡。 Analysis: The Zetas, the most feared narco-gang in Mexico and Central America. | The Americas Post Miguel Angel Trevino-Morales is a high ranking member of Los Zetas and head of a semi-independent drug trafficking organization (DTO) controlling more than 200 operatives. Trevino-Morales is responsible for collecting “tariffs” at all drug plazas controlled by the Gulf Cartel in Mexico. From 2006 to 2007, Miguel Angel Trevino-Morales served as Nuevo Laredo “Plaza Boss” for the Gulf Cartel, and then was sent to Veracruz, Mexico in March 2007 as Plaza Boss following the death of Efrain Theodora-Torres. A decade ago, they were a small group of elite Mexican soldiers who saw a chance to make a lot more money working as hitmen for powerful drug cartels . Today, the “Zetas” are the most feared gang in Mexico. President Felipe Calderon’s government is going after the Zetas and half a dozen other major cartels moving billions of dollars worth of cocaine and other drugs to U.S. consumers each year. Mexican drug leader of The Zetas , Daniel Perez Rojas, right on the screen
HippoCampus: Online Content In and Out of Class Teaching Strategies HippoCampus Teaching the Civil War Through a series of slideshow presentations, HippoCampus covers a wide range of subject areas, from the Civil War to biopsychology. By Sara Bernard For students seeking study guides and educators needing specific content, here’s another robust online resource: HippoCampus, a project of the Monterey Institute for Technology and Education (MITE), provides multimedia homework and study help to high school and community college students and instructors free of charge. As part of MITE’s National Repository of Online Courses (NROC), HippoCampus content focuses on general education topics like algebra and biology and is largely donated by universities and other educational institutions. It was a surprise to us … but probably more than 80 percent of HippoCampus use is happening in classrooms. “Teachers work hard; they don’t have a lot of time,” says Gary Lopez, executive director and co-founder of both the Monterey Institute and HippoCampus. Q.
TEDxYouth@Taipei – Ritika Arya、Lin Jiunhung (林駿宏) | TEDxTaipei TEDxTaipei » TEDxYouth@Taipei – Ritika Arya、Lin Jiunhung (林駿宏) Ritika Arya 這位20歲的印度女孩，她和她的妹妹兩個人，想要幫助印度ㄧ批非常窮，沒有錢讀書的其他青少年努力，成立了My India Empowered計畫，讓同儕互相學習。 Winner of the Achievement Awards for the NGO 『My India Empowered』 (MIE) that she founded with her younger sister, Ritika Arya has a vision to bring education to the very poor children of Mumbai, India. 林駿宏(Lin Jiunhung) 林駿宏小一以珍古德為榜，關懷動物、社區與環境生態。 TEDxTaipei New update: TEDxYouth@ Taipei ! 台灣好 思考 思考模式 池上 自閉症 許芳宜 陳永龍 陶喆 Adam Richardson alvin woon A moving sound Big Hopes Chris Anderson christian marc schmit curiosity dance David Hoffman David Tao dream earthquake haiti imagine J.J. 小樂樂 : 我有看到你們發的廣告傳單~ 可不上到網站真的完全不懂這要做什麼耶 沒有寫說有辦活動@@ susie : 請問活動是一共三天(07/23, 07/24, 07/25)嗎? peiru : 志工報名已經滿滿滿了。 Contact | Help | Terms of Use | Privacy Policy Big Question is the official curator of © TEDxTaipei.
How Learning Environments Are Changing Culture Digital Tools Teaching Strategies A school’s perimeters are no longer the only place students learn. Kids are learning about the world from their homes, from the community, and anywhere it’s available to them. Here’s a look at trends in the future of learning environments. The Three Key Trends 1. Whether it’s to cut costs or give students more options, virtual schools – and brick-and-mortar schools that offer online courses – are proliferating. Flickr:Striatic New virtual schools are springing up, as are traditional school districts offering online courses. Cost cutting is a big motivating factor for traditional schools offering online programs. Universities are also leveraging online classes for practical benefits — as a way to compensate for over-filled classes and a way to save costs. Online classes offer a number of benefits: personalized, flexible learning approaches, access to courses that are over-capacity, and collaboration with other institutions, for starters.
The Learning Society’s Global Ambitions Culture Flickr: woodleywonderworks By Sara Bernard If we want our education system to adapt to the 21st century, we need to re-imagine the entire thing — not just build more of the same. So claim the thought leaders behind The Learning Society, a concept launched as part of Cisco Systems’ Global Education initiative at the 2010 Learning and Technology World Forum in London last year. Their big idea is this: Education can no longer be isolated from the rest of society. The Learning Society project, led by Richard Halkett, Cisco’s director of Strategy & Research for Global Education, is, so far, just a white paper and a video. Key recommendations include: Rather than ask if the system is operating efficiently, the questions become: “How is learning really happening? “As we move into social media as a learning tool, what does that mean for education?” According to Petrillo, it’s not feasible to simply build more buildings and hire more teachers. Related
What’s the New Narrative in the Education Revolution? The control piece is really big because, if it’s acknowledged, it really leaves teachers and educators with this empty hole. “Well, if we’re not doing that, then what are we doing?” That’s where the conversation needs to be. And that’s not where a lot of people want to go. It’s a hard conversation to have. It’s very difficult for people to see themselves in a decidedly different role in the classroom. But the interesting thing is that all of them will acknowledge that it’s happening. And the parent part interests me too. I don’t think parents really have a clue, in general. [Parents say]: "There are places that are experimenting on that stuff, but don’t experiment on my kid. Q. Absolutely. Q. It is a pretty high mountain to climb, but I think it’s going to happen. One of the books that's influenced me a lot is Rethinking Education in the Age of Technology by Allen Collins and Richard Halverson. I think they’re right. Q. I agree. Q. Q. Because we can control it. Q. Q. Q. Q.
The Purpose of Education | Simbeck-Hampson Consultancy I set out to discover the purpose of ‘education’ after hearing about the purposed campaign. After reviewing some quotes from influential scholars and some definitions on the web, a four-sided picture of education’s purpose came to mind. I began with the Wikipedia definition of education. Education in the largest sense is any act or experience that has a formative effect on the mind, character or physical ability of an individual. In its technical sense, education is the process by which society deliberately transmits its accumulated knowledge, skills and values from one generation to another. ~ Wikipedia The words ‘act’ and ‘experience’ jumped out at me as those formative effects that can happen everywhere and any time throughout our lives. This brought me to the first ‘purpose of education’ ; to negotiate a balance of push and pull between learners and their sources. Sometimes learners need permission to pull from their own set of sources. To answer that we must look within.
The Five Myths of Informal Learning There are misunderstandings about this critical approach. Informal learning is emerging as one of the most powerful disciplines in our industry. The tools and methodologies that have been developed over the past several years are changing the learning landscape in amazing ways. But there are a number of misunderstandings about this critical approach. 1. 2. 3.
Assessing Informal Learning For March the LCBQ is: How do you assess whether your informal learning, social learning, continuous learning, performance support initiatives have the desired impact or achieve the desired results? My response to the question – I think we should assess informal learning but I don't think I want to asses informal learning using the same set of parameters often used for formal learning. Need to assessTo me, the objective of all learning (including formal and informal) is to achieve the 'desired' change in behaviour and performance. Therefore, I want to continue to assess performance to see if the ‘desired results’ have been achieved. And since informal learning contributes a great deal to our performance, therefore, it is important to think about how to assess informal learning. Difference between formal and informal learning We are constantly learning - either by ourselves or because others want us to learn. Conclusion I agree that we should assess our efforts towards informal learning.