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Bill Gates: In Five Years The Best Education Will Come From The Web
Gates believes that in five years time you’ll able to find the “the best lectures in the world”. You can now, but its “unevenly distributed”!
“One particular problem with the education system according to Gates is text books. Even in grade schools, they can be 300 pages for a book about math. ‘They’re giant, intimidating books,” he said. “I look at them and think: what on Earth is in there?’”
school, education Add tag Permalink | Saturday, August 07, 2010
On education
Dennis Littky writes about a new approach to education in the lastest issue of Interactions magazine. (Subscription required).
“The school was broken down into advisories, with a teacher and a group of students who spent four years together. Each adviser, parent, and student developed an individual learning plan. The school had broad goals of reading, writing, applying math, empirical reasoning, communication, and personal qualities. Every student would have his or her own way of reaching those goals with high standards. The teacher—also acting as adviser—would help the student identify his or her interests and then find a mentor and workplace to help make the learning real.”
Sounds like “Gurukul” to me.
school, education Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Computers at Home: Educational Hope vs. Teenage Reality
NY times reports that there is no evidence of improved educational performance with having computers at home.
“Economists are trying to measure a home computer’s educational impact on schoolchildren in low-income households. Taking widely varying routes, they are arriving at similar conclusions: little or no educational benefit is found. Worse, computers seem to have further separated children in low-income households, whose test scores often decline after the machine arrives, from their more privileged counterparts.”
education Add tag Permalink | Monday, July 12, 2010
Too Cool for School: What the Valley Is Missing in Online Education
Sarah Lacey writes about the education and training opportunities in the developing world:
“But in emerging markets, modern education is still developing on an elementary, collegiate and vocational level. Burgeoning populations who want better opportunities are struggling under the confines of what young democracies can provide, giving a huge opportunity for private, for-profit education systems to play a bigger role than they’ve played in the West historically. And obviously, the Web and mobile is a big part of this. It’s not just about access, it’s about breaking learning down into affordable, consumable chunks—the same way the Web has broken music and media down into sell-able, bite-sized pieces of the song and the blog post. Some of this is happening inside the classroom and some is redefining what a “classroom” is.”
education Add tag Permalink | Thursday, May 20, 2010
Dan Mayer shows ho to teach math
Great piece on teaching math that is fun and memorable by Dan Mayer. His blog has more.
school, education Add tag Permalink | Thursday, April 22, 2010
Kiran Bir Sethi teaches kids to take charge
When will this infection catch on worldwide? These are the small pockets of hope that we have left. Brilliant stuff Kiran!
school, education Add tag Permalink | Thursday, January 14, 2010
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