TED Reveals Top 20 Most-Watched Talks, Sir Ken Robinson Tops The List. India: Hole-in-the-Wall. An Indian physicist puts a PC with a high speed internet connection in a wall in the slums and watches what happens. Based on the results, he talks about issues of digital divide, computer education and kids, the dynamics of the third world getting online. New Delhi physicist Sugata Mitra has a radical proposal for bringing his country's next generation into the Info Age from a Businessweek Online Daily Briefing, March 2, 2000.
Edited by Paul Judge Sugata Mitra has a PhD in physics and heads research efforts at New Delhi's NIIT, a fast-growing software and education company with sales of more than $200 million and a market cap over $2 billion. But Mitra's passion is computer-based education, specifically for India's poor. He believes that children, even terribly poor kids with little education, can quickly teach themselves the rudiments of computer literacy. To test his ideas, Mitra 13 months ago launched something he calls "the hole in the wall experiment. " Q: What does it mean? A: Yes. Flipping the lecture hall: first thoughts | Carl Gombrich. Inspired by Khan, reading more at Steve Wheeler’s blog and many other links, I am thinking more about how we can use technology at universities to give the students what they want: meaningful contact time with their lecturers, professors and the leading academics.
This is about putting the people back at the centre of the learning. It is using technology to do stuff technology can do, and allowing people to do the things most of us want people to do. How can we do this? Well, how about this for a first model? We say that lectures as a way of delivering content are over. We don’t ban them – that is too strong – but we take it as default that this way of talking at students is now passed. Instead we say all lecturers should upload their lectures by videocast to some VLE or other space where all their students can see them. We then make it a requirement for students to watch those lectures in their own time. I have run this idea past a couple of colleagues and there is tentative approval. Gever Tulley teaches life lessons through tinkering. Teaching Creativity - Professional Development for Teachers. A few weeks ago fellow Voices blogger Shelley Wright wrote a provocative blog on flipping Bloom’s Taxonomy and beginning the learning experience with Creativity.
As the person most directly responsible for our school’s Professional Development I have been wondering what professional development looks like when you turn Bloom’s on its head. Teachers young and old are comfortable with the old model and path. Even if they have never heard of Bloom’s Taxonomy (it happens in independent schools where some young teachers have never taken an education course), teachers are inherently comfortable with the approach the taxonomy lays out.
Remembering and Understanding are sooo easy to assess—give a quiz; find out what you student doesn’t know. Applying and Analyzing are practiced at each level of a teacher’s own education and eventually applied as an educator—analyzing new texts, applying new techniques. Encouraging teachers to teach creativity requires a different approach.
Image: Creative Commons. Make the next school year amazing for your students! “If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it.” -Frank Zappa Inside of every student I’ve ever taught lives a passionate, curious mind that can either flourish or stagnate, both inside and outside the classroom. The teachers that get it — that get you – are the ones that help bring you there, but that is not all teachers, not by any means. I think everyone, by this point in their life, has had experience with at least one teacher that stands out in their minds as inspirational: a teacher that’s helped you become a greater person in this world.
Image credit: University of Nebraska-Lincoln, via What makes matters even worse is that this isn’t what the system values. Image credit: Endeavor Tutoring and Test Preparation. 1.) 2.) Image credit: The Art of Teaching Science / Jack Hassard. Image credit: Suite 101. Mooresville School District, a Laptop Success Story. Prezi - The Zooming Presentation Editor. Just What Does it Mean to Integrate Technology. Here we are in 2012 and technology is a booming industry in education. SMARTBoards, Projectors, Document Cameras, Airliners, Clicker Systems, Video and Photo devices, iPods and iPads are invading classrooms all over the world.
Teachers and students are being asked to use these new tools, with some having training and others being thrown to the wolves. But just what does it mean to integrate technology? Does using a projector each day count as a teacher using technology? I use technology everyday, but getting my students to use it has been a struggle. With teacher accountability changing all the time, where will technology integration fit into the equation?
I firmly believe that if I was at a 1:1 school I would have much more success with integration. So the big question still remains....Just what does it mean to integrate technology? How the Finnish school system outshines U.S. education | Social and Behavioral Science Research. The Finnish school system might sound like a restless American schoolchild's daydream: school hours cut in half, little homework, no standardized tests, 50-minute recess and free lunch. But the Finns' unconventional approach to education has vaulted Finland to the upper echelon of countries in overall academic performance, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Finnish students have ranked at or near the top of the Program for International Student Assessment ever since testing started in 2000.
In the most recent assessment in 2009, they ranked sixth in math, second in science and third in reading. By comparison, U.S. students ranked 30th, 23rd and 17th, respectively, of the 65 tested countries/economies. But Finland's system hasn't always been successful. "Finland had been traditionally thought of as the lowest achieving country in Scandinavia, and one of the lower achieving ones in Europe for a very long time. From worst to first Source: Stanford.Edu. Isaac Asimov previendo el impacto de Internet. RSA Animate - Changing Education Paradigms. The Public Library Manifesto: Why Libraries Matter, and How We Can Save Them by David Morris. Why libraries matter, and how we can save them. posted May 06, 2011 "The word 'public' has been removed from the name of the Fort Worth Library. Why? Simply put, to keep up with the times. " -Press release regarding the rebranding of the Fort Worth Library In an age of greed and selfishness, the public library stands as an enduring monument to the values of cooperation and sharing.
In an age where global corporations stride the earth, public libraries remains firmly rooted in local communities. This is not the time to take the word “public” out of the public library. The public library is a singularly American invention. Public libraries are one of the most ubiquitous of all American institutions, more widespread than Starbucks or McDonalds. By the 1870s, 11 states together boasted 188 public libraries. Almost two thirds of us carry library cards.
Protecting the Right to Know But libraries are much more than bookstores. By 1935, public libraries were serving 60 percent of the population. What Teachers Make Final Moviebk2 0001.