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Post by Tamrin on May 1, 2012 10:24:35 GMT 10
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Post by maximus on May 1, 2012 22:57:47 GMT 10
I could have told them kids learn from those around them, and saved them a lot of time and money.
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Post by Tamrin on May 2, 2012 9:28:45 GMT 10
Yes it does seem obvious, as does Social Learning Theory which Bandura is credited with founding and which was the subject of the experiment. Yet I have come across the assertion that the theory is dead!?
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Post by Tamrin on Aug 17, 2013 12:48:10 GMT 10
Education is a self-organizing system, where learning is an emergent phenomenon
The Victorians were great engineers. They engineered a [schooling] system that was so robust that it's still with us today, continuously producing identical people for a machine that no longer exists
It's quite fashionable to say that the education system's broken — it's not broken, it's wonderfully constructed. It's just that we don't need it anymore. It's outdated
In nine months, a group of children left alone with a computer in any language will reach the same standard as an office secretary in the West
I once asked a group of 10-year-olds in the little town of Villa Mercedes in Argentina: Why do we have five fingers and toes on each limb? What's so special about five? Their answer may surprise you. The children arrived at their answer by investigating both theology and evolution, discovering the five bones holding the web on the first amphibians' fins, and studying geometry. Their investigation resulted in this final answer: The strongest web that can be stretched the widest must have five supports
It took nature 100 million years to make the ape stand up and become Homo sapiens. It took us only 10,000 to make knowing obsolete
My wish is that we design the future of learning. We don't want to be spare parts for a great human computerSugata MitraIndian-born polymath. Professor of Educational Technology at the School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences at Newcastle University, England. He is best known for his "Hole in the Wall" experiment, and widely cited in works on literacy and education. He is Chief Scientist, Emeritus, at NIIT. He is also the winner of the TED Prize 2013 (His Hole in the Wall experiment inspired the award-winning movie Slumdog Millionaire)(Born 12 February 1952) We need a pedagogy free from fear and focused on the magic of children's innate quest for information and understanding
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