Ken Robinson: How to escape education's death valley
Sir Ken Robinson outlines 3 principles crucial for the human mind
to flourish -- and how current education culture works against them. In a funny, stirring talk he tells us how to get out
of the educational "death valley" we now face, and how to nurture our youngest generations with a climate of possibility.
Creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson challenges the way we're educating our children. He champions
a radical rethink of our school systems, to cultivate creativity and acknowledge multiple types of intelligence. To
learn more about Ken Robinson and listen to his other TEDtalks, go here: http://www.ted.com/speakers/sir_ken_robinson.html
Kiran Bir Sethi shows how her groundbreaking Riverside School in India
teaches kids life's most valuable lesson: "I can." Watch her students take local issues into their own hands,
lead other young people, even educate their parents.
The founder of the Riverside School in Ahmedabad, Kiran Sethi has launched an initiative to make our cities more child-friendly.
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John Hunter puts all the problems of the world on a 4'x5' plywood board -- and lets his
4th-graders solve them. At TED2011, he explains how his World Peace Game engages schoolkids, and why the complex lessons
it teaches -- spontaneous, and always surprising -- go further than classroom lectures can. www.rosaliafilms.com/teacher.htm
Salman Khan: Let's use video to
reinvent education
Salman Khan talks about how and why he created
the remarkable Khan Academy, a carefully structured series of educational videos offering complete curricula in math and,
now, other subjects. He shows the power of interactive exercises, and calls for teachers to consider flipping the traditional
classroom script -- give students video lectures to watch at home, and do "homework" in the classroom with the
teacher available to help. www.khanacademy.org
In Rajasthan, India, an extraordinary school teaches rural women
and men -- many of them illiterate -- to become solar engineers, artisans, dentists and doctors in their own villages. It's
called the Barefoot College, and its founder, Bunker Roy, explains how it works. www.barefootcollege.org
Onstage at TED2013, Sugata Mitra makes his bold TED Prize
wish: Help me design the School in the Cloud, a learning lab in India, where children can explore and learn from each other
-- using resources and mentoring from the cloud. Hear his inspiring vision for Self Organized Learning Environments (SOLE), and learn more at tedprize.org.
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.
Some
kids learn by listening; others learn by doing. Geoff Mulgan gives a short introduction to the Studio School, a new kind
of school in the UK where small teams of kids learn by working on projects that are, as Mulgan puts it, "for real."
http://www.youngfoundation.org/our-ventures?current_venture=1934
At this school in Tokyo, five-year-olds cause traffic jams and
windows arre for Santa to climb into. Meet: the world's cutest kindergarten, designed by architect TakaharuTezuka.
In this charming talk, he walks us through a design process that really lets kids be kids.
