Daphne Koller : What we're learning from online education

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Daphne Koller is enticing top universities to put their most intriguing courses online for free https://www.coursera.org/ not just as a service, but as a way to research how people learn. Each keystroke, comprehension quiz, peer-to-peer forum discussion and self-graded assignment builds an unprecedented pool of data on how knowledge is processed and, most importantly, absorbed.

Waiting for Superman (2010)

Every morning, in big cities, suburbs and small towns across America, parents send their children off to school with the highest of hopes. But a shocking number of students in the United States attend schools where they have virtually no chance of learning--failure factories likelier to produce drop-outs than college graduates. And despite decades of well-intended reforms and huge sums of money spent on the problem, our public schools haven't improved markedly since the 1970s. Why? There is an answer. And it's not what you think. From "An Inconvenient Truth" director Davis Guggenheim comes "Waiting for 'Superman'", a provocative and cogent examination of the crisis of public education in the United States told through multiple interlocking stories--from a handful of students and their families whose futures hang in the balance, to the educators and reformers trying to find real and lasting solutions within a dysfunctional system. Tackling such politically radioactive topics as the power of teachers' unions and the entrenchment of school bureaucracies, Guggenheim reveals the invisible forces that have held true education reform back for decades.

Noam Chomsky : Education For Whom and For What?

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Noam Chomsky, a world-renowned linguist, intellectual and political activist, spoke at the University of Arizona on Feb. 8, 2012. His lecture, "Education: For Whom and For What?" featured a talk on the state of higher education, followed by a question-and-answer session.

Chomsky, an Institute Professor and a Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he worked for more than 50 years, has been concerned with a range of education-related issues in recent years. Among them: How do we characterize the contemporary state of the American education system? What happens to the quality of education when public universities become more privatized? Are public universities in danger of being converted into facilities that produce graduates-as-commodities for the job market? What is the role of activism in education? With unprecedented tuition increases and budget struggles occurring across American campuses, these are questions that are more relevant than ever.

Pasi Sahlberg: "Finnish Lessons: What can the world learn from educational change in Finland?"

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Watch video of Pasi Sahlberg speaking Dec. 9 on "Finnish Lessons: What can the world learn from educational change in Finland?"

The talk is part of the Peabody Research Office (PRO) brown bag lunch lecture series. These are informal presentations featuring research innovations at Peabody or other areas in the university.

Maintaining a strongly supportive school system in which teachers and students share responsibility for results

http://www.pearsonfoundation.org/oecd/finland.html

Finland has one of the world’s best performing education systems. Thanks to years of steady progress in education reform, its secondary school students regularly achieve high scores in PISA tests. The gap between the highest and lowest performers within schools is small, and there is little variation among schools or among pupils of differing family backgrounds.

One reason for Finland’s success is the high degree of personal responsibility conferred on both teachers and students. In the 1970s and 1980s, management of Finland’s school system was decentralized and traditional academic structures in upper secondary schools were replaced by flexible modular structures, giving pupils more choice in what they study. Teachers were given freedom to design their curriculum and choose textbooks.

Schools in Finland are focal centers for their communities. They provide a daily hot meal for every student, plus health and dental services, psychological counseling and a broad array of other services for students and their families. They are mostly small in size, with minimal administrative overheads, and are mainly funded by municipal budgets. Principals are expected to take their share of the teaching load, even in large schools.

Teachers share a strong personal and professional commitment to helping students succeed. They assess their students on an ongoing basis, but also focus on helping them to take increasing responsibility for their own learning. Students are expected to work in teams on projects, preferably cutting across traditional subject or disciplinary lines.

A particular feature of the Finnish system is the “special teacher.” This is a specially trained teacher assigned to each school whose role is to work with class teachers to identify students needing extra help, and then work individually or in small groups with these students to provide the support they need to keep up with their classmates.

Noam Chomsky - The Purpose of Education

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Noam Chomsky discusses the purpose of education, impact of technology, whether education should be perceived as a cost or an investment and the value of standardised assessment.

Presented at the Learning Without Frontiers Conference - Jan 25th 2012- London (LWF 12)

http://www.learningwithoutfrontiers.com

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Interviewed & directed by Graham Brown-Martin
Filmed & edited by Kevin Grant at wildtraxtv (http://on.fb.me/wildtraxtv)

Sir Ken Robinson - Changing Paradigms

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Creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson will ask how do we make change happen in education and how do we make it last?

Geoff Mulgan: A short intro to the Studio School

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Some kids learn by listening; others learn by doing. Geoff Mulgan gives a short introduction to the Studio School, a new kind of school in the UK where small teams of kids learn by working on projects that are, as Mulgan puts it, "for real."

RSA Animate - Changing Education Paradigms

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This animate was adapted from a talk (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCbdS4hSa0s) given at the RSA by Sir Ken Robinson, world-renowned education and creativity expert and recipient of the RSA's Benjamin Franklin award.

Ken Robinson: Escolas matam a criatividade?

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Escolas matam a criatividade? Ken Robinson acha que sim.
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Culture, Politics & Pedagogy - A Conversation With Henry Giroux

http://www.mediaed.org/

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An active citizen, says the prolific and influential Henry Giroux, is "somebody who has the capacity not only to understand and engage the world but to transfom it when necessary, and to believe that he or she can do that." In this provocative new interview, Giroux speaks with passion about the inextricable links between education, civic engagement, and social justice.

Strongly influenced by Paulo Freire, the Brazilian scholar of progressive education, Giroux advocates for a pedagogy that challenges inequality, oppression, and fundamentalism. Essential viewing for students of education, cultural studies, and communication.

Sections: Introduction | On Paulo Freire | Freire's Legacy | Liberating Teaching | No Child Left Behind? | Race & Democratic Education | Questioning Authoritarianism | Media Education | On Agency | The War on Kids | Staying Unfinished | Struggling for the Future

Henry Giroux 
Henry Giroux is one of the leading writers and educators associated with the Critical Theory tradition in education. His first book, Ideology, Culture and the Process of Schooling, (1981), established him as an important voice in the world of educational theory. Since then he has authored more than 20 books, and over 200 scholarly articles and chapters. Presently he is the Waterbury Chair Professor in Secondary Education in Penn State's College of Education, and serves as the Director of the Waterbury Forum in Education and Cultural Studies.

Filmmaker Info 
Producer: Dr. Janice Welsch & Bill Yousman
Director: Mark Traverso of SCI Television Productions
Narrator: Henry Giroux

Henry A. Giroux - In Defense of Teachers

Porter Chair Lecture, Eastern Michigan Universitry

Henry Armand Giroux was born September 18, 1943, in Providence, Rhode Island, the son of Armand and Alice Giroux.

Giroux received his Doctorate from Carnegie-Mellon in 1977. He then became professor of education at Boston University from 1977 to 1983. In 1983 he became professor of education and renowned scholar in residence at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio where he also served as Director at the Center for Education and Cultural Studies. He moved to Penn State Univeristy where he took up the Waterbury Chair Professorship at Penn State University from 1992 to May 2004. He also served as the Director of the Waterbury Forum in Education and Cultural Studies. He moved to McMaster University in May 2004, where he currently holds the Global Television Network Chair in English and Cultural Studies. He currently lives in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada with his wife, Dr. Susan Searls Giroux.

UNICEF: Girls' rights in the spotlight as key to development

http://www.unicef.org/adolescence/index_53426.html

NEW YORK, 26 April 2010 International experts have gathered in New York this week to find new ways to strengthen the rights of adolescent girls.

Their three-day seminar, Adolescent Girls Cornerstone of Society: Building Evidence and Policies for Inclusive Societies, began today. It was organized by UNICEF and the New School Graduate Program in International Affairs.

At the start of the seminar, writer and New York University Law School Professor Carol Gilligan presented the latest research on adolescent girls. The data show that as they grow up, girls instinctively resist becoming part of a society that does not value them as highly as their brothers.

Girls resistance is key to the realization of what I see as a feminist vision, she explained. That is not an issue of women or men, or a battle between women and men, but one of the great liberation movements in human history ... the movement to free democracy from patriarchy.

Anya Kamenetz on Alternative Education (Extended)

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With the costs of higher education spiraling out of control, the rise of for-profit colleges, and more students enrolled in online classes than ever before, it's clear that a sea change is coming. People have more options for alternative education even as they continue to be priced out of traditional institutions. Anya Kamenetz describes the shifting landscape of higher education in this extended clip.

Ken Robinson on Mechanistic View of Life - Great Talk

Sir Ken Robinson returns to the RSA to share new thinking on 'The Element' - the point at which natural talent meets personal passion.

 http://sirkenrobinson.com/skr/the-element

From one of the world's leading thinkers and speakers on creativity and innovation, a breakthrough book about talent, passion, and achievement.

The element is the point at which natural talent meets personal passion. When people arrive at the element, they feel most themselves and most inspired and achieve at their highest levels. The Element draws on the stories of a wide range of people, from ex-Beatle Paul McCartney to Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons; from Meg Ryan to Gillian Lynne, who choreographed the Broadway productions of Cats and The Phantom of the Opera; and from writer Arianna Huffington to renowned physicist Richard Feynman and others, including business leaders and athletes. It explores the components of this new paradigm: The diversity of intelligence, the power of imagination and creativity, and the importance of commitment to our own capabilities.

With a wry sense of humor, Ken Robinson looks at the conditions that enable us to find ourselves in the element and those that stifle that possibility. He shows that age and occupation are no barrier, and that once we have found our path we can help others to do so as well. The Element shows the vital need to enhance creativity and innovation by thinking differently about human resources and imagination. It is also an essential strategy for transforming education, business, and communities to meet the challenges of living and succeeding in the twenty-first century.

A.S Neill's Summerhill School, a co-educational boarding school in Suffolk, England, is the original alternative 'free' school. Founded in 1921, it continues to be an influential model for progressive, democratic education around the world. Enjoy the site.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2451210148637059318

A. S. Neill's SUMMERHILL School

  The story of the most famous free, libertarian school in the world founded by the great educationist A. S. Neill. The existence and continuation of such a school for over 80 years bodes well for humankind!http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=351862798006272328

Les enfants de Summerhill 2

http://www.summerhillschool.co.uk/

Un documentaire sur l'œuvre d'Alexander Sutherland Neill.

"Le plus grand bien que nous puissions faire aux autres n'est pas de leur communiquer notre richesse, mais de leur révéler la leur."
- Daniel Grégoire

L'enfant n'est pas un vase que l'on remplit, mais une source à faire jaillir.
-Maria Montessori

C'est l'enfant lui-même qui doit s'éduquer, s'élever avec le concours des adultes. Nous déplaçons l'acte éducatif : le centre de l'école n'est plus le maître mais l'enfant.
-Célestin Freinet

"Ce qui ne peut s'enseigner que par des coups et au prix de la violence ne portera que de mauvais fruits." 
-Martin Luther

"Comment se fait-il que les enfants étant si intelligents, la plupart des hommes soient bêtes? Cela doit tenir à l'éducation."
-Alexandre Dumas

"On n'enseigne pas ce que l'on sait ou ce que l'on croit savoir : on n'enseigne et on ne peut enseigner que ce que l'on est."
-Jean Jaurès

Les enfants de Summerhill 1

Un documentaire sur l'œuvre d'Alexander Sutherland Neill, à découvrir ou redécouvrir.

"Libres enfants de Summerhill" (1971) est un des livres les plus extraordinaires qu'il m'ait été donné de lire. On peut le trouver aux éditions La Découverte.

Des écoles "différentes": http://ecolesdifferentes.free.fr

L'éducation a pour but la formation du caractère, l'autonomie de la personne, la découverte et la mise en œuvre de ses potentialités créatrices, non l'acquisition de connaissances livresques et techniques inutiles, ou le formatage au service d'un système aliénant et destructeur, à savoir le capitalisme productiviste.

L'éducation devrait être une des priorités absolues de tout gouvernement digne de ce nom. En une génération, avec une éducation appropriée pour tous, une nation entière peut être transformée de fond en comble.

AS Neill: un utopiste de génie !

Une autre utopie concrète en marche: La Décroissance
www.ladecroissance.net

Sir Ken Robinson, Hammer Lectures

Ken Robinson has written numerous books, most recently
"The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything". This talk explores ways to connect peoples' natural aptitudes with their personal passions to achieve at their highest levels in education and business. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2003 for his outstanding achievements in education and the arts.

Learn more about the Hammer Museum at UCLA and Hammer Lectures at http://www.hammer.ucla.edu/.
 

The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

 
The element is the point at which natural talent meets personal passion. When people arrive at the element, they feel most themselves and most inspired and achieve at their highest levels. The Element draws on the stories of a wide range of people, from ex-Beatle Paul McCartney to Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons; from Meg Ryan to Gillian Lynne, who choreographed the Broadway productions of Cats and The Phantom of the Opera; and from writer Arianna Huffington to renowned physicist Richard Feynman and others, including business leaders and athletes. It explores the components of this new paradigm: The diversity of intelligence, the power of imagination and creativity, and the importance of commitment to our own capabilities.

With a wry sense of humor, Ken Robinson looks at the conditions that enable us to find ourselves in the element and those that stifle that possibility. He shows that age and occupation are no barrier, and that once we have found our path we can help others to do so as well. The Element shows the vital need to enhance creativity and innovation by thinking differently about human resources and imagination. It is also an essential strategy for transforming education, business, and communities to meet the challenges of living and succeeding in the twenty-first century.