This video is rather long (about 17 minutes), but I found it thought-provoking.
Sugata Mitra: The child-driven education
Child-driven education: video on TED.com
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Child-driven education: video on TED.com
Best wishes,
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This really is very interesting - not finished it yet, but still listening.HansV wrote:This video is rather long (about 17 minutes), but I found it thought-provoking.
Sugata Mitra: The child-driven education
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"Make yourself understood to the computer."
"How do we do that?"
"I don't know."
True.
"Granny-cloud"
Thanks, Hans.
"How do we do that?"
"I don't know."
True.
"Granny-cloud"
Thanks, Hans.
Byelingual When you speak two languages but start losing vocabulary in both of them.
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I watched this video last week. It was quite inspiring how plastic children's brains are and how readily they learn, even (especially) if they have to teach themselves.
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I was fixated on the video the whole way through
It was so cool and yet amazing……
The human brain knows no boundaries
It was so cool and yet amazing……
The human brain knows no boundaries