TED talks

Can Schools Exist in the Cloud?

Listening Challenge

What is crucial for learning to work?

Why did Sugata Mitra have to shut the computer down?

What are the origins of the present day school?


Do you think school has changed much over the last decades?


What was the global Victorian computer and what was it made of?

What was the purpose of school?

What qualities did the good students have?


Could it be that we won’t need to go to school?


Why is the educational system not broken?

What skills do modern employees need and don’t need?

Why would we not need to go school?


Is it possible for knowing to become obsolete?


What was the Victorian concept of knowledge?

What kind of access to knowledge do we currently have?

What makes the current system of examination ridiculous?


Do you think knowing is important today? Do you like exams?


Do you agree that children shouldn’t spend much time in front of the computer?


What is the self-organized learning environment?

What is the Grandmother’s method?

What is the key to self-organized learning?


Do you think motivation is crucial in learning?


How does the ancient part of the human brain work when threatened?

Why threat was needed in learning in the age of empires?

What should we do to change learning today?

How should Sugata Mitra’s school work?


Do you like Sugata Mitra’s ideas about learning and school?


Word/Phrase List

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Credits:

Helgi Halldórsson
The future of learning

Personalities:

Guy Raz

Sugata Mitra

Sugata Mitra Wikipedia Article