[Hamara-devel] education talks on TED

[shirish]

some more additions down the line :-

On 05/25/2015 04:28 PM, shirish wrote:
> Hi all,
> There are quite a few talks on education at TED. See specifically :-
>
> 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,
>
> 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 
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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

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.

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