Berylaube 00's List: neuroscience

The significant takeaway from Sugata’s research isn’t that a child will succeed by gaining access to a computer. That’s missing the point. The educational magic that’s happening is found in the mix of kids, computers and collaboration.The kids in India who exhibited such astonishing intellectual acuity in a remarkably rapid fashion weren’t just spurred into academic achievement by using technology. It was the collaboration—working together to solve a problem—while using a computer that seems to be what produces these results. And if you find yourself doubting that, consider Sugata’s duplication of these results in the British school system.5. Universal Application Across CulturesSugata duplicated the Indian results by splitting a British classroom into groups and allowing each group of four children to share a computer and use any resource they could access to solve a problem.

""What's going on up there [in babies' brains] is nothing short of rocket science.""They are taking statistics