{"id":645614,"date":"2013-03-06T18:50:13","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T23:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ted.com\/?p=72484"},"modified":"2013-03-06T18:55:58","modified_gmt":"2013-03-06T23:55:58","slug":"4-inspiring-kids-imagine-the-future-of-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/645614","title":{"rendered":"4 inspiring kids imagine the future of learning"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Future-of-Learning-kids\"After more than 13 years of research convinced him that children have the ability to learn almost anything on their own, 2013 TED Prize winner Sugata Mitra<\/a> aspires to shape the future of learning by building a School in the Cloud<\/a>, helping kids \u201ctap into their innate sense of wonder.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the spirit of Mitra\u2019s invitation to the world to \u201cask kids big questions, and find big answers,\u201d we asked four brilliant young people to tell us: What do you think is the future of learning?<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Here, their answers.<\/p>\n

Adora Svitak<\/b><\/a>, 15-year-old writer, teacher and activist<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the most powerful shifts in the future of education will come from not only the tools at our disposal, but from an underutilized resource: <\/b>the students whose voices have for too long been silent. We’re increasingly pushing for seats at the decision-making tables, empowering ourselves by shaping our own learning, and taking on activist roles both online and off. To me, this signals one of the most hopeful signs of the future of education — the shift from\u00a0a top-down, learning-everything-from-the-authority-figure approach to an approach characterized by peer-to-peer learning, empowerment \u00a0and grassroots change.\u201d<\/p>\n

Watch Adora\u2019s talk to discover \u201cWhat adults can learn from kids\u201d \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n

Kid President<\/b><\/a>, 10-year-old inspiration machine<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cMy older brother and I believe\u00a0kids\u00a0and grown ups can change the world. We’re on a mission with our web series,\u00a0Kid\u00a0President, to do just that. If every classroom in the world could be full of grownups and\u00a0kids working together, we’d live in a happier world.\u00a0Kids\u00a0want to know about the world and about how they can make an impact.\u00a0Kids\u00a0also have ideas. It’d be awesome if teachers and students could work together and put these ideas into action. There should be lessons in things like compassion and creativity. If those two things were taught more in schools we’d see some really cool things happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

Watch Kid President\u2019s inspiring \u201cpep talk\u201d for the world \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n

Ying Ying Shang<\/b><\/a>, 16-year-old blogger, teen advisor to the UN Foundation, and SPARK Movement activist<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cFor most of my life, the media has been a constant presence, whether it\u2019s in the form of a TV droning in the background or the billboards that whiz by on the highway or the never-ending barrage of sounds and images on social media. That\u2019s why I know the importance of learning media literacy early. It\u2019s so important that the power of the media be recognized, both in its capacity for sexualization and distortion of reality, as well as its capacity to be harnessed for good.<\/p>\n

Also, it seems inevitable that future educators will turn to online learning tools, replacing blackboards with smartboards and note packets with YouTube videos. In the wake of this shift, analysis and critical thinking skills should be taught more than ever in classrooms.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read Ying Ying\u2019s blogs about creating healthy media and ending the sexualization of women and girls \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n

Thomas Suarez<\/b><\/a>,13-year-old app developer and founder of Carrot Corp, Inc.<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cThe future of education should include programming as a major subject. The class will allow students to collaborate on code, teach each other, and communicate outside of the classroom using services such as Google+. This way, students will think more during other classes, be much more likely to get a job and, most important, have fun.\u201d<\/p>\n

Watch Thomas\u2019s talk and learn about how he taught himself to build iPhone apps \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n

Join the conversation! What do you<\/b> think is the future of learning? Tell us in the comment section below.<\/p>\n

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After more than 13 years of research convinced him that children have the ability to learn almost anything on their own, 2013 TED Prize winner Sugata Mitra aspires to shape the future of learning by building a School in the Cloud, helping kids \u201ctap into their innate sense of wonder.\u201d In the spirit of Mitra\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7468,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-645614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7468"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}