Videos of presentations and talks offering
interesting, sometimes unorthodox ideas on education reform.
The length of the videos run from three to fifteen minutes. The
links below Will take you to the video indicated.
This
one has been around for a while, but it gives
some interesting statistics and a lot of good
reasons why we should treat children as one of
our most critical resources and education as
one of our most important
functions.
Do
Schools Kill Creativity? Ken Robinson TEDTalks20:03
A
wonderful talk by Sir Ken Robinson
on the value of creativity and how our
education systems stifles it by denying people
the freedom to make mistakes -- and what we can
do about it.
Sugata Mitra talks about an
interesting set of experiments he undertook in
India called "Hole in the wall". Where
he had computers embedded in
the walls of buildings where underprivileged
kids could get access to them. His results are
truly amazing.