Christian Long keeps the excellent Think:Lab blog, which is all about new approaches to education. Today he found two great videos. One is an inspiring teacher’s answer to what he “makes.” The second is a video about whether we are paying attention and asks teachers some interesting questions.
More goodies like these over on my link blog. Oh, and FeedDemon just added the ability to share items with other people, er, do your own link blog.
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This one blew my mind when I saw it a few years ago..
New MIT graduates are asked to make a lightbulb work using a battery and wire.. seems simple enough and while they claim to be able to do it, most fail. Why?
http://www.learner.org/resources/series26.html?pop=yes&vodid=278761&pid=76#
There’s a series of 3 videos that examine how “modern” educational methods fail to get through to students.
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This one blew my mind when I saw it a few years ago..
New MIT graduates are asked to make a lightbulb work using a battery and wire.. seems simple enough and while they claim to be able to do it, most fail. Why?
http://www.learner.org/resources/series26.html?pop=yes&vodid=278761&pid=76#
There’s a series of 3 videos that examine how “modern” educational methods fail to get through to students.
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Yeah, these are great videos. My wife (4th grade teacher) showed a few of them to me. She is trying hard to get her school to adopt a more technology focused curriculum. It is a challenge to get teachers out of the ‘old ways’ of thinking. I blogged a few weeks ago about it and a couple others after watching them: http://www.palermiti.org/2007/05/19/the-machine/
Cheers!
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Yeah, these are great videos. My wife (4th grade teacher) showed a few of them to me. She is trying hard to get her school to adopt a more technology focused curriculum. It is a challenge to get teachers out of the ‘old ways’ of thinking. I blogged a few weeks ago about it and a couple others after watching them: http://www.palermiti.org/2007/05/19/the-machine/
Cheers!
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