[IAEP] Sugata Mitra at TED 2013

[Walter Bender]

On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 3:24 AM, Dominik Granada <dgranada at frks.pl> wrote:
>
> Arthur Benjamin says: teach statistics before calculus (check on TED) - cant
> paste link now
>
> Free and democratic schools experience indicates that strong testing and
> guidance understood traditionally are at least .... obsolete.
>
> and btw children in free schools learn calculus when they see the need for
> it

I think you may have misunderstood Yoshiki's point in quoting Alan. As
I read it, he was not describing a curriculum choice; he was making a
point that some powerful ideas don't just emerge, but need to be
explicitly introduced.

regards.

-walter
>
> cheers DG
>
> Yoshiki Ohshima <Yoshiki.Ohshima at acm.org> napisał:
>>
>> On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 10:12 AM, Caryl Bigenho <cbigenho at hotmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> When I was teaching I had a saying usually attributed to Confucius
>>> (carefully hand drawn in calligraphy… no computers available to print it
>>> then) and hung above the chalkboard (old technology). It was my motto for
>>> teaching:
>>>
>>>
>>> "I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand."
>>>
>>>
>>> It may have been first said 2500 years ago, but I believe it is still
>>> valid
>>> today. That is why I do what I do!
>>
>>
>> Invoking proverbs is fun as you can always find the one that argues
>> for the other way.
>>
>> The above one probably was a somewhat liberal translation of what
>> Xunzi (荀子) wrot
>>  e.  But
>> one other thing Confucius said was:
>> "學而不思則罔、思而不學則殆", for which I found an English translation: "If you
>> learn without thinking, you cannot understand truly. If you think
>> without learning, you will be self-righteous."  (I might translate the
>> last word to "dangerous", as it is closer to the original meaning.)
>>
>> Alan Kay often says: Children won't discover calculus on their own.
>>
>> Doing is important, but in the learning process good checking system
>> and guidance is essential.  The above quote should be taken as "in
>> addition to hearing and seeing, you should do things".
>>
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