[Hamara-devel] education talks on TED

[shirish]

addition at bottom :-

On 05/27/2015 12:46 AM, shirish wrote:
> some more additions down the line :-
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> On 05/25/2015 04:28 PM, shirish wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> There are quite a few talks on education at TED. See specifically :-
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>> http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_how_to_escape_education_s_death_valley?language=en
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>> http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity?language=en
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>> http://www.ted.com/talks/sir_ken_robinson_bring_on_the_revolution?language=en
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>> http://www.ted.com/talks/bunker_roy?language=en
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>> The third talks about the way we want to do things,
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>> The fourth is about the barefeet movement - Just sharing.
>>
>> There are quite a few more that I'll explore and see if there are any
>> which could help us.
>
> http://www.ted.com/talks/daphne_bavelier_your_brain_on_video_games?language=en
> -
>
> Very interesting, there was lot of bad press about FPS's while I was
> growing up, now do wish I had taken those up. Apart from the points
> mentioned in the talk, action games do also give birth to pretty fertile
> imaginations. The whole mod culture that you see in games and gaming
> today came from First Person Shooters (FPS's) and then to strategy and
> RPG's and other genres of gaming. You could have free software action
> games + using the Playstation or X box controller to have some pretty
> freaky combos.
>
> I will not be sharing about genres of gaming because :-
>
> a. Wikipedia has pretty good articles on most or all of genres of
> digital video gaming.
>
> b, Genres today are more mixed. Today you could have a game which will
> be called as a sandbox action game having strategy and RPG elements
> which a decade ago meant four different genres of gaming which had
> nothing in common with each other. I am not going to go much deeper into
> this as that is a huge topic in itself where lot of cultural artefacts
> also make their presence felt.
>
> http://www.ted.com/talks/sugata_mitra_build_a_school_in_the_cloud?language=en
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>
> The idea is good but pretty unorthodox for Indian schools right now but
> could be a good conversation starter.
>
> http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_meyer_math_curriculum_makeover?language=en
>
> Nice one. Interestingly, what he has shared about math curriculum could
> be made for lot of different subjects. Some people might think of it as
> dumbing down, but others could would see it.
>
> As an example to kids in Maharashtra about history and architecture, we
> could ask the children how to make a fort so that it's absolutely
> invincible and let them talk about it.
>
> Then slowly introduce the Daulatabad fort and share how it was defended
>
> see for instance http://visit-to-aurangabad.blogspot.in/
>
> let them explore about that and then have another conversation about
> what modern forts are all about, for instances about naval, air and
> military bases and how should we  protect them. At some point introduce
> budgeting also. The conversation list just goes on an on.
>
> Now, while I don't know to integrate both of these right now, it could
> certainly accelerate learning and have more conversations.
>
> I will be diving a bit more on the interesting stuff.

Just saw one today :-

http://www.ted.com/talks/beeban_kidron_the_shared_wonder_of_film

Pretty interesting perspective, maybe Vikas could share more as he's in 
UK.

-- 
Regards,
Shirish Agarwal,
Community Lead,
Hamaralinux.org