Bringing+on+the+Education+Revolution

=Session 2: Bringing on the Education Revolution=

Here is the video that we watched from Sir Ken Robinson.

Use the discussion tab to leave your thoughts or reflections on the video and also to engage with and respond to others thoughts as well.

Also feel free to read Glenn's January blog post about a 'Learning Revolution' and feel free to leave a comment at the bottom of it as well.

Glenn's blog post

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The video can also be found at the following links:
 * @http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/sir_ken_robinson_bring_on_the_revolution.html
 * @http://sandhursttv.com/stv/videos/115/bring-on-the-learning-revolution-sir-ken-robinson
 * @http://www.youtube.com/user/tedtalksdirector?blend=1&ob=4

__//**About TED:**//__ TED is a small nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: **Technology, Entertainment, Design.** Since then its scope has become ever broader. Along with two annual conferences -- the TED Conference in Long Beach and Palm Springs each spring, and the TEDGlobal conference in Oxford UK each summer -- TED includes the award-winning TEDTalks video site, the Open Translation Project and Open TV Project, the inspiring TEDx program and the annual TED Prize.

Sir Ken's Original TED talk on 'Do schools kill creativity?'

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It can also be found here:
 * @http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html
 * @http://www.youtube.com/user/tedtalksdirector?blend=1&ob=4


 * __Other TED Videos worth watching re Education__**

media type="custom" key="6512423" align="left" Charles Leadbeater went looking for radical new forms of education -- and found them in the slums of Rio and Kibera, where some of the world's poorest kids are finding transformative new ways to learn. And this informal, disruptive new kind of school, he says, is what all schools need to become.

media type="custom" key="6512425" align="left" Sugata Mitra's "Hole in the Wall" experiments have shown that, in the absence of supervision or formal teaching, children can teach themselves and each other, if they're motivated by curiosity. He asks, what else can children teach themselves