As education Guru Keith Robinson has rightly pointed out: we have indeed sold ourselves into a fast-food model of education, and it's impoverishing our spirit and our energies as much as fast food is depleting our physical bodies.
- At the heart of the challenge is to reconstitute our sense of ability and of intelligence.
- It's about passion, and what excites our spirit and our energy.
- We have to recognize that human flourishing is not a mechanical process; it's an organic process.
- All you can do, like a farmer, is create the conditions under which they will begin to flourish.
- It's about customizing to your circumstances and personalizing education to the people you're actually teaching.
- And doing that, I think, is the answer to the future because it's not about scaling a new solution; it's about creating a movement in education in which people develop their own solutions, but with external support based on a personalized curriculum.
- And every day, everywhere, our children spread their dreams beneath our feet. And we should tread softly.
"The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must dis-enthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country." Abraham Lincoln. Not rise to it, rise with it.
Sugata Mitra makes his bold wish: "Help me design the School in the Cloud, a learning lab in India, where children can explore and learn from each other — using resources and mentoring from the cloud." For the jobs of the future, students need to learn how to locate information and think critically.
- In November 2013, the first School in the Cloud learning lab — located inside a high school in Killingworth, England — opened its doors to students. Since then, six more learning labs have been built — one more in the UK and five across India.
Mitra has also launched the School in the Cloud platform which ensures that anyone, anywhere, can experiment with self-organized learning. As of 2016, more than 16,000 SOLE sessions have taken place globally, with partner learning labs and programs scatted across the world — including in Pakistan, Colombia and Greece. The platform debuted at TED2014, with Microsoft and their Skype Social Good team stepping in to provide core technology and connect a global community. Made By Many, the product design partners, and IDEO, the research design partners, co-created the experience.
And Newcastle University opened SOLE Central in 2014, as a global hub for research on self-organized learning. The platform is managed at the university's Culture Lab.
The process of building the School in the Cloud will be the subject of documentary by British director Jerry Rothwell, winner of the first annual Sundance Institute
Warm regards,
G.S.Autee
Dear Prof. Bholanath Ji & Fellow Academicians,
Thanks for raising the topic for the discussion.
Though Open Air (space) Learning requires more space and may face other challenges, but definitely it is more effective, especially under the trees (in the Garden). On the basis of my personal experience, when I used to become bore while studying in room for longer time, I used to follow my father advice to go to garden and study there. Really, it was felt better and relaxed and resulted in better understanding the topic, better solving of numerical due to better concentration and obviously resulted in effective learning. Just recall, our ancient Gurukulam was always in forest and were performing open air learning. All our saints learned mysterious nature and scientific facts through open air learning and attained perfect gyan under one of other kind of trees. Even Abrahmlinkon, first president of USA, also used to study in open air. I don't whether it can be fulfilled or not, but I have a very strong wish to establish such an University that may perform only open air learning.
Therefore, we must encourage the Open Air Learning Systems and such Universities.Thanks & Regards
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"…an Indian is one who got a Vedantic Brain, which ProbesDeep and Soars High...." - Swami Vivekanand---------------------------------------------------------------------------------On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 6:11 PM, Rs Tiwari <dr.rstiwari@gmail.com> wrote:Try to have a look on our universities , colleges and other educational institutions,with exceptions See the no. of students, space and total environment. Most of the students are loitering outside the class rooms , . with so much noise ( with right to express themselves). It may not only disturb teaching but motivate students to join them. This is possible only in a few selected places to be identified.Moreover I saw a news from UGC that techers beyond 61 urs. will not be considered as guide for Ph.D. students. It is surprising and ridiculours , what do you think. Thanks. Dr/ R.S.Tiwari--On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 5:36 PM, Prof. Bholanath Dutta <bnath.dutta@gmail.com> wrote:Education Guru Keith Robinson suggests in his famous TED talk that class outside the classroom helps in effective learning.
Should we encourage more open air learning ? What about the flipped class room ?
Is there few colleges which encourage such practices besides Viswa Bharathi ?
Request views please....
Prof. Bholanath Dutta
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