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some links for our mitra study group and any other interested people
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"In this talk from RSA Animate, Sir Ken Robinson lays out the link between 3 troubling trends: rising drop-out rates, schools' dwindling stake in the arts, and ADHD. Divergent thinking."
"You can have places where you cannot build a school. More commonly you can have schools in places where good teachers do not want to go. So what do you do? You still have children there who need and want to learn. That is the issue that Sugata Mitra is trying to solve with his latest experiment, the Granny Cloud."
"Education scientist Sugata Mitra tackles one of the greatest problems of education -- the best teachers and schools don't exist where they're needed most. In a series of real-life experiments from New Delhi to South Africa to Italy, he gave kids self-supervised access to the web and saw results that could revolutionize how we think about teaching."
"Makarenko is often reckoned among the world’s great educators, and his books have been published in many countries"
"Former monk and long-term peace and environment activist, Satish Kumar has been quietly setting the Global Agenda for change for over 50 years."
"Satish teaches, lectures and runs workshops internationally on reverential ecology, holistic education and voluntary simplicity"
authority on British countryside, trees, woodlands and wood pasture.
"For many years, I've been interested in seeing the world differently. I've wanted to see beyond the Western, mechanical view of the world and see what else might appear when the lens was changed."
"For twenty years, The Berkana Institute has worked in friendship and partnership with people around the world who are discovering that there is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about."
"The two loops model has been a fundamental piece of The Berkana Institute’s theory of change. As one system culminates and starts to collapse, isolated alternatives slowly begin to arise and give way to the new."
Spectrum Maths Investigations book 1 Dave Kirkby 1999
obsolete skill set? Literacy & letteracy in the media age Symour Papert
Yes he of MINDSTORMS and LOGO
worth considering in Transition movement. civic pride sense of belonging, friendship, values.
Siena's attitudes to charity and compoassion very long lived.
16 items | 4 visits
some links for our mitra study group and any other interested people
Updated on Mar 06, 15
Created on Nov 03, 11
Category: Religion & Beliefs
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