Why are there so many calls for Educational reform yet we cling to the "banking method" as Freire suggests? Why are we afraid?
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Minimally invasive education
As a follow up to the TED video below, Indian-born professor of computational and molecular science Sugata Mitra answers more questions about his current experiment Schools in the Cloud.
Has 'knowing' become obsolete?
"Homo Sapiens will transition to Homo Deus in the next 50 years. Our preoccupation will be with meaning and creation. Knowing will not be our main interest - creating will."
The interview and transcript is available here
Has 'knowing' become obsolete?
"Homo Sapiens will transition to Homo Deus in the next 50 years. Our preoccupation will be with meaning and creation. Knowing will not be our main interest - creating will."
The interview and transcript is available here
Saturday, March 9, 2013
Hybrid High School
Couple of thoughts here.
There are a group of individuals responding courageously to the needs of our time - Education. Second, there is a premiere, academic institution - on the West Coast - that will financially support and leverage its reputation in the belief that change and imagination are only a handful of ingredients for assisting our delapitaded educational system into the current century. Take a look:
There are a group of individuals responding courageously to the needs of our time - Education. Second, there is a premiere, academic institution - on the West Coast - that will financially support and leverage its reputation in the belief that change and imagination are only a handful of ingredients for assisting our delapitaded educational system into the current century. Take a look:
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