7 lectures that can change the way we approach education

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

These seven TED Talks on Modern Schools and Approaches to Students will change the way you think about the established education system.

1. Self-organization is the future of education

Scientist and educator Sugata Mitra dreams of building a school in a virtual cloud, where children can learn from each other. In his lecture, he talks about the idea of self-organizing learning spaces (SLEL). Using the example of children from India, England and Australia, he demonstrates the work of the SDME in practice: children study in a classroom without a teacher, but chaos does not reign there, and in their knowledge they are far ahead of their peers.

The lecturer suggests asking children questions, providing access to the Internet and admiring the result. Students themselves must find answers, solve complex problems and learn about the origin of the world as soon as they have the freedom to search.

Sugata Mitra believes that we should focus on learning as a product of self-organization. If you let the learning process go its own way, learning will emerge. The teacher starts the process and then steps aside and observes.

You can create an SDME at home, at school and outside. Please do this on all five continents and send me the data. I will process them, put them in a "school in the clouds" and create the future of education.

Sugata Mitra

The scientist says that the "school in the clouds" is the place from where children go on intellectual journeys in search of answers to great questions.

2. What an ideal education system should look like

Ken Robinson is a book author, speaker and international advisor on the development of creative thinking, education systems and innovation in government and public organizations. In his lecture, he talks about how the school system is intolerant of mistakes. But one who is not ready to make mistakes cannot create.

Our educational system has emptied our minds as we empty the bowels of the earth. But we cannot use such a system further. We must rethink the basic principles of teaching children.

Ken Robinson

Ken Robinson believes that the main problem of education is that it weaned people off the ability to be creative. We don't develop creativity, we grow out of it. The lecturer believes that creativity is now as important as literacy.

3. Why videos are important in the learning process

Salman Khan is the creator of the Khan Academy online lecture hall with textbooks in basic mathematics, economics, art history, computer science, healthcare, medicine, which has over 42 million registered users from 190 countries.

He believes that giving students the opportunity to study the lecture on their own at home, and then in the classroom to carry out assignments under the supervision of a teacher, freely interacting with each other, then this will humanize school activities.

Schoolchildren at home can watch videos, stop at difficult moments, revise them and master the program at their own pace. At this time, only a couple of lectures are held at the school, homework is given and an exam is written. It doesn't matter how the students passed it. The whole class immediately moves on to the new topic.

But there is one problem: even students who pass the exam at 95% are missing something. And with this ignorance, they move on. When going through the material quickly, good students fall for simple things, because they still have holes in their knowledge.

It's like learning to ride a bike. I explain the theory and then give the bike for two weeks. Then I go back and say, “Okay, let's see. You have problems with the left turn. You don't know how to brake. You are 80% cyclist. " And I put a three on your forehead and say, "Now take a unicycle."As ridiculous as it sounds, this is exactly what happens in class.

Salman Khan

4. Lead without fear, love strongly

Linda Clayette-Wayman is a school director in Philadelphia with an unwavering belief in the potential of children. With tears in her eyes, Linda talks about how she first came to one of the worst schools in North Philadelphia.

This was not a school. Piles of broken furniture and debris lay around. The classes remained almost empty, because the students were afraid to come and sit at their desks, they were afraid of fights and bullying. The teachers were afraid of the students themselves.

Linda Clayette-Wayman

The new director decided not to shift her responsibilities to anyone and establish her own rules. Three slogans were central to her struggle for change:

• If you want to be a leader, be one.
• So what? What's next?
• If no one told you today that they love you, remember that I love you and will always love you.

Despite her uncomplicated wording, her fearless leadership and dedication is an example for leaders around the world. Linda is the principal who is on duty in the cafeteria because she considers it important to spend time with her students. She congratulates them on their birthday and is not afraid to talk about personal things.

5. Children don't learn from those they don't like

Rita Pearson is a teacher with forty years of experience. She fights to ensure that teachers have faith in their students, and believes that you need to create real human relationships with students, because without them there is no effective teaching.

One day Rita heard her colleague say: “I am not paid to love children. I get paid to teach lessons. Children have to teach, I have to teach. That's all". Rita replied, "Remember, kids don't learn from those they don't like."

How wonderful the world would be if children were not afraid to take risks, think and have a strong support. Every child deserves to have a support - an adult who will never give up on him.

Rita Pearson

In her speech, Rita Pearson talks about how important it is to apologize to students, why help them build self-esteem, and what a relationship that will never go away is.

6. How to turn summer lag into promotion

Karim Abuelnaga is an Educational Entrepreneur and TED Fellow. In his lecture, he talks about how over the summer, children from low-income areas of the United States forget a lot of the knowledge gained during the school year.

Now the traditional summer school reminds students of punishment, and teachers - of babysitting. Returning to school, students spend another two months to restore knowledge. As a result, it turns out that five months are simply wasted.

If we can only prevent the loss of five months by replanning two, imagine the opportunities we can open up by reworking an entire calendar year.

Karim Abuelnaga

Karim Abuelnaga proposes to turn this loss of knowledge into an opportunity for advancement and development towards a better future. He believes that it is necessary to develop a program that will enable teachers to become mentors, and will allow excellent students to inspire other students to new achievements.

7. Why sleep is so important for teens

Wendy Troxel is a sleep specialist, physician and teen mom. Thanks to her profession, she is well aware of the importance of sleep, the reasons for sleep deprivation and how to deal with it. But even such a specialist has a difficult time when it comes to raising a son to school.

Eight hours of sleep recommended is a 3 in your diary. Sleep involves learning, forming memories, and processing emotions. For teenagers, waking up at 6 am is equivalent to getting up at 4 am for adults.

Getting started early has a direct impact on how little teenagers sleep. We are getting a whole generation of tired and nervous youth.

Wendy Troxel

Proponents of late start of classes know that adolescence is a period of rapid brain development. Those students in whose schools classes start later miss truant less often, drop out less often and study much better.