Sunday, September 12, 2010

Am I going to use calculus in real life?

Someone always asks the math teacher, "Am I going to use calculus in real life?" And for most of us, says Arthur Benjamin, the answer is no. He offers a bold proposal on how to make math education relevant in the digital age.

Sugata Mitra: Pendidikan yang didorong anak didik (The child-driven education)

Ilmuwan Pendidikan Sugata Mitra menangani salah satu masalah terbesar pendidikan - guru yang terbaik dan sekolah tidak ada pada sat mereka dibutuhkan. Dalam serangkaian percobaan kehidupan nyata dari New Delhi ke Afrika Selatan sampai Italia, ia memberikan kesempatan pada anak-anak yang diawasi untuk mengakses web dan melihat hasil yang dapat merevolusi cara kitaberpikir tentang pendidikan.

Sugata Mitra: The child-driven education | Video on TED.com

Education scientist Sugata Mitra tackles one of the greatest problems of education -- the best teachers and schools don't exist where they're needed most. In a series of real-life experiments from New Delhi to South Africa to Italy, he gave kids self-supervised access to the web and saw results that could revolutionize how we think about teaching.