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Recommended TED Talk – Do schools kill creativity? Sir Ken Robinson
Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity.
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Is the American School System Damaging Our Kids?
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TED Video: Sugata Mitra: The child-driven education
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.
TED Video: Sugata Mitra: Build a School in the Cloud
Educational researcher Sugata Mitra is the winner of the 2013 TED Prize. His wish: Build a School in the Cloud, where children can explore and learn from one another.
TED Talk – We Need Schools… Not Factories – Sugata Mitra
We need a pedagogy free from fear and focused on the magic of children’s innate quest for information and understanding. — Sugata Mitra
How one man revolutionized teaching by trusting kids to teach themselves.
Imagine a classroom with 20 children, four computers, and no teacher. Under those circumstances, do you think the children could teach themselves?
Kindergartners Who Share iPads Perform Better In School, Study Suggests
The researchers found that the students who shared iPads scored approximately 30 points higher compared to those who were not given iPads and those who were provided with one iPad each.
How a Radical New Teaching Method Could Unleash a Generation of Geniuses
These students in Matamoros, Mexico, didn’t have reliable Internet access, steady electricity, or much hope–until a radical new teaching method unlocked their potential.
Invest in early childhood development – ‘To Small to Fail’
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