{"id":656857,"date":"2013-05-08T14:39:25","date_gmt":"2013-05-08T18:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ted.com\/?p=75647"},"modified":"2013-05-08T14:41:57","modified_gmt":"2013-05-08T18:41:57","slug":"playlist-6-education-ideas-from-unlikely-places","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/656857","title":{"rendered":"Playlist: 6 education ideas from unlikely places"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Geoffrey Canada rocked the audience at TED Talks Education with his passionate talk. Photo: Ryan Lash<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Geoffrey Canada gives a very interesting analogy in today’s TED Talk<\/a>: He compares the current education system in the United States to the era when banks were only open between the hours of 10am and 3pm.<\/p>\n

\"GeoffreyGeoffrey Canada: Our failing schools. Enough is enough!<\/span><\/a>\u201cNow, who can bank between 10 and 3?\u201d asks Canada to a big laugh. \u201cIt went on for decades. You know why? Because they didn\u2019t care. It wasn\u2019t about the customers. It was about bankers \u2026 Now one day, some crazy banker had an idea. Maybe we should keep the bank open when people come home from work?\u201d<\/p>\n

What do “bankers’ hours” have to with education? Well, Canada says, many of the US education system’s similar ingrained habits — long summer vacations, testing at the end of the school year — go against everything we know about student learning. And yet these old habits continue. As Canada puts it: \u201cHere\u2019s a business plan that simply does not make any sense.\u201d Among his ideas: Shorten vacation so kids don’t backslide academically during the long summer; and test early in the school year, when there’s still time to correct course.<\/p>\n

To hear his passionate plea for educators to start looking at data and to think more about the customers — students — in order to curb the United States\u2019 abysmal dropout rate, watch this powerful talk<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And here are more fascinating TED Talks that suggest ideas for education from other seemingly unrelated fields.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
\"SusanSusan Cain: The power of introverts<\/span><\/a>Susan Cain: The power of introverts<\/b><\/a><\/b>
\nIdea: Make time for solitary work, not just groupwork<\/b>
\nFrom: Psychology<\/b>
\nSusan Cain\u2019s blockbuster talk from TED2012 focuses on the wondrous, largely ignored skills that introverts have to offer. She points out that schools are unabashedly built for extroverts, with their emphasis on group exercises and group activities — and urges classes to leave time for solitary work to capture the best of introversion.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"MargaretMargaret Heffernan: Dare to disagree<\/span><\/a>Margaret Heffernan: Dare to disagree<\/b><\/a>
\nIdea: Teach kids how to debate<\/b>
\nFrom: Business<\/b>
\nIn this talk from TEDGlobal 2012, Margaret Heffernan contends that conflict, challenge and openness to changing our minds are all key to progress. The problem is, we tend to avoid disagreement at all costs. How to counter that? Heffernan describes a Ph.D. program that requires students to submit five statements that they\u2019re prepared to defend in the face of authority. \u201cI think it\u2019s a fantastic system, but I think leaving it to Ph.D. candidates is far too few people and way too late in life,\u201d she says. \u201cI think we need to be teaching these skills to kids and adults at every stage of development.\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"CarlCarl Honore: In praise of slowness<\/span><\/a>Carl Honor\u00e9: In praise of slowness<\/b><\/a><\/b>
\nIdea: Ban homework (or ease up on it)<\/b>
\nFrom: The Slow Movement<\/b>
\nWe\u2019re trying to do more and more with less and less time — and Carl Honor\u00e9 explains why this isn\u2019t a good thing. \u201cBy slowing down at the right moments, people find that they do everything better: they eat better, they make love better, they exercise better, they work better, they live better,\u201d he says. And, of course, they learn better. Kids, Honor\u00e9 says, are overworked to the point of burnout. He proposes that we embrace slow education, easing up on (or even banning!) homework to allow kids time to process and relax after school.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"JarrettJarrett J. Krosoczka: How a boy became an artist<\/span><\/a>Jarrett J. Krosoczka: How a boy became an artist<\/b><\/a><\/b>
\nIdea: Drawing helps kids deal with emotions<\/b>
\nFrom: Art<\/b>
\nAt TEDxHampshireCollege, Jarrett Krosoczka, an author and illustrator of children\u2019s books, says it\u2019s essential that kids get the opportunity to flex their drawing muscles through extracurricular classes. He talks about the emotional outlet that art and writing gave him as a child — even as he dealt with hard emotions surrounding his complicated parents.(Check out Krosoczka’s picks for 10 great children’s books that are destined to be classics<\/a>.)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

And a bonus unreleased talk:<\/p>\n

Stuart Firestein: Celebrate ignorance<\/b><\/a><\/b>
\nIdea: Don’t just teach answers — teach questions <\/b>
\nFrom: Science<\/b>
\nIn this yet-to-be-released talk from TED2013 — about the necessity of high-quality ignorance to scientific discovery — Firestein proposes a model of education based on evaluation rather than weeding out. Instead of feeding kids facts that they can then repeat, he imagines a system in which we encourage kids to ask, not answer. (Watch for the talk this fall!)<\/p>\n

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