Education.
Listen, repeat, learn.
1) After watching the video I take the view that the method of "hole in the wall" is quite effective, but still has some inaccuracies. There is no doubt, that the tested children showed a marked improvement, and the phrase I liked a lot is "You gave us the machine which worked in English, so we learned how to use it in English", which means that if you are even below average and things don't go to you as easy as ABC, you can still LEARN how to do something. All you have to do is to find your interest in something, be able to get back to basics, be an eager beaver and don't be scared stiff to get down learning.
The point of a "School in the cloud" is very exciting and to grasp its importance I had to conduct a research. In fact, the effect is the same, but this time children could communicate with a live person and acquire some new knowledge even without natural talent for such.
The phenomena of self-organisation for learning is widespread now, but it is a foregone conclusion that it is not like that everywhere, so I'm keen on the Mitra's idea as it can really have an enourmous effect on the modern way of learning.
2) During the video Ken Robinson provides us with sufficient and clear facts about modern ways of educating children. He pays attention to such points as teachers' attitude to the ways of learning, how children learn, variety of subjects and its importance, etc.
Ken Robinson explains how important is to change the way of learning and acquiering knowledge to make it more effective for students. He points out on a fact, that now education is aimed on taking tests and accomplishing them, but not on the process of learning itself, and now it has great importance among European schools and universities, because their evaluation systems are selected individually to the institution.
I honestly agree with Ken Robinson that a well-being of the studying institution is directly depends on the condition where it functions.
The main point is to create such working cfonditions where people would be able to ACHIEVE results and make the whole system prosperous from their own success.
What we need is a movement, in words of Benjamin Franklin - a revolution.
3) It's my firm conviction that fundamentals of future education lay in present teachers and students, their cooperation and ideas, which could be implemented in education development now, so they may have an enourmous impact on the ways of learning in the future.
First and the foremost, we should take into consideration the fact that the XXI century is already called the hi-tech-century and almost 70% of world population uses Internet, that's why we should pay more attention to computerized education. Thus, those people who can't attend classes, would be able to enroll on online courses and other sources.
Secondly, provide relevant working environment both for students and for teachers, because if each part of mechanism is working properly, whole machine will perform perfectly.
Thirdly, we should propose to enact an annual forum for discussing actual questions on modern education and ways of its improvement, thus countries with lower level in education sphere will have examples of those countries where this sphere is flourishing and really effective, and will have a unique opportunity to improve situation in their own country.
Here are some ideas from the brainstorm depicted in a small mindmap:
Links for videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wX78iKhInsc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3jYVe1RGaU
