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.
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Sugata Mitra: The Child-Driven Education
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Here you will find ESL/EFL lessons for intermediate to advanced learners of English based on the TEDTalks. All parts of these documents are copyrighted either by TED or Doug Evans and fall under the Creative Commons license.
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Monday, October 25, 2010
Friday, October 8, 2010
Derek Sivers - How to Start a Movement
With help from some surprising footage, Derek Sivers explains how movements really get started. (Hint: it takes two.)
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Derek Sivers - How to Start a Movement
Please feel free to comment with constructive suggestions for future lessons.
For this 3 page esl lesson in a .pdf format, download directly from:
Derek Sivers - How to Start a Movement
Please feel free to comment with constructive suggestions for future lessons.
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