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Sep 08
2010
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Children will learn to do what they want to do.Posted by: Dave Moursund Tagged in: Higher Education
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The TED videos are one of my favorite sources of information. Recently I viewed Sugata Mitra: The child-driven education. This 17 minute video is available free online at http://www.ted.com/talks/sugata_mitra_the_child_driven_education.html. Quoting from the Website:
Mitra, along with lots of other teachers, feels that: “Children will learn to do what they want to do.” Quoting from the Website listed above:
“Education scientist Sugata Mitra tackles one of the greatest problems of education—the best teachers and schools don't exist where they're needed most. 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.”
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Links to Related IAE Documents
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Joe the Plumber (the "common man"). Newsletter Issue 13, March, 2009.
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Using computers as an aid to retrieving and processing trustworthy and untrustworthy information. Newsletter Issue # 39 April 2010.
Using Your Brain to Retrieve and Process Trustworthy and Untrustworthy Information. Newsletter Issue # 38 March 2010.
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One of the nice things about the United States and a number of other countries is that children have many different opportunities in possible life pathways. Many well-intentioned parents and schools attempt to be quite restrictive in the opportunities they provide for students. They have difficulty in achieving an appropriate balance between preparing children to become independent, self-directing thinkers and doers, and children who dutifully follow the pathways laid down by parents and schools.