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Food for Thought Page 4

World Class Education.


[|Stopping the Interruptions] media type="custom" key="6788057" The video he mentions.. media type="youtube" key="zGt3-fxOvug?fs=1" height="405" width="660"

The Dark Side of Our Achievement Culture
[| - the Race to Nowhere.] "Are we creating a culture of unprepared high achievers? Is our education system inadvertently contributing to and even enhancing a student mind-set of superficial multi-tasking?"

Temple Grandin: The world needs all kinds of minds
Temple Grandin, Ph.D., is the most accomplished and well-known adult with autism in the world. In this TED talk, she articulates her perspective on the educational needs of children on the autistic spectrum. Diagnosed with autism as a child, she talks about how her mind works -- sharing her ability to "think in pictures," which helps her solve problems that neurotypical brains might miss. She makes the case that the world needs people on the autism spectrum: visual thinkers, pattern thinkers, verbal thinkers, and all kinds of smart geeky kid

Have You Been Paying Attention?
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Child Driven Education
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. media type="custom" key="6896537"

Give Them A Laptop and Children Will Teach Themselves
A article by Sugata Mitra that summarises his TED Talk [|(via Guardian Newspaper)] media type="custom" key="7270131"

Turn tablets into a 'constructionist medium'
Nicholas Negroponte touts the importance of tablets at Mobilize 2010 in San Francisco. The One Laptop Per Child founder says physical books are too expensive, take up too much space, and are hard to update for the developing world. He says the next step is for kids to use tablets to make things instead of just using the devices for consumption. media type="custom" key="7172941"

Changing the Education Paradigm.
An RSA animate part of a Sir Ken Robinson talk. Provides great ammunition against standards and also raised interesting points about the ADHD epidemic. The full speech (55 minutes) is [|available here]. media type="youtube" key="zDZFcDGpL4U?fs=1" height="385" width="640"

Why Are Finnish Kids So Smart?
(and not a national standard in sight..) Source: [|Wall Street Journal] media type="custom" key="7275377"