[Ilugc] [OT] Why Our Country Lacking Enterprenuers Like Mark Zuckerburg ?
- From: ganeshacomputes@xxxxxxxxx (Ashwin Dixit)
- Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 00:36:09 -0700
On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 11:56 PM, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay <
sankarshan.mukhopadhyay at gmail.com> wrote:
The part from the article with which I disagree is that it tends to
conclude that education is a means to an end. Education is, and mostly
has been a guide - a pointer to further ways of development.
Unfortunately, like all other things, it has morphed into an entity
which is measured by marks on the score-card.
I just saw the TED talk by Sugata Mitra that Tavish posted.
Just mindblowing! No more canings. :)
I suggest a different testing strategy for the future.
Give the students all the resources they need to "know", all the time.
As Mr. Mitra says, "knowing is obsolete".
Let the students consult books, computers, the Internet, each other, and
anyone they can get to help, maybe even the teacher ( if she/he is not
careful ).
FOSS is one of those things. Children of the future should be given tools
they can evolve to their needs and share with others.
The slogan is: "By any means handy!"
The test will be that of imagination, not knowledge.
There will be no right answers, because the test-creator won't assume that
he/she is smarter than the test-takers.
In fact, we should give these wonderkids all the resources they need to
imagine, let them self-organize,
and sit back and expect to be blown away by their creative solutions.
They will come up with things we can't imagine! The current education
system doesn't account for the Flynn effect.
We have to acknowledge that our kids are going to be smarter than us, and
inhabit a very different world than us.
Mr. Mitra even suggests that children are an emerging new species, more
evolved than Homo Sapiens. What a thought!
Orson Scott Card's highly relevant book, "Ender's Game" is being made into
a movie.
Cheers,
- Ashwin.
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