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Ted talks on education

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Elizabeth Gilbert on nurturing creativity. Tom Chatfield: 7 ways games reward the brain. Sugata Mitra: The child-driven education. Sugata Mitra shows how kids teach themselves. Gever Tulley on 5 dangerous things for kids. Richard St. John's 8 secrets of success.

Arthur Benjamin's formula for changing math education | Video on. DecideAlready - Decisions made easy. 21st century education. Revised August 2008. Your Assignment, Should You Choose to Accept It . . . Like Alice, many educators, policy makers and even the general public respond resoundingly with "That's impossible! " when challenged to adopt a new paradigm of education for the 21st century. Most people today adhere to a paradigm of education that is strictly 19th century.

But, like the Queen, a growing number of educators are believing in and accomplishing "the impossible". Web 2.0 and new Social Communities Dr. What is 21st century curriculum? What does all this mean for how we design and build schools? 1. References Kellner, Douglas; New Media and New Literacies: Reconstructing Education for the New Millennium Grant, Jodi, Director of the After School Alliance; Fourteen Million Kids, Unsupervised McLeod, Scott, Dangerously Irrelevant Time, Learning and Afterschool Task Force, A New Day for Learning Belasco, James A., Teaching the Elephant to Dance, 1991 Wesch, Michael, Ph. Critical & Creative Education. Kiran Bir Sethi teaches kids to take charge.

Tom Wujec: Build a tower, build a team. Richard St. John's 8 secrets of success. Sugata Mitra shows how kids teach themselves. Sugata Mitra: The child-driven education.