On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 11:56 PM, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay < sankarshan.mukhopadh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The part from the article with which I disagree is that it tends to > conclude that education is a means to an end. Education is, and mostly > has been a guide - a pointer to further ways of development. > Unfortunately, like all other things, it has morphed into an entity > which is measured by marks on the score-card. > > > I just saw the TED talk by Sugata Mitra that Tavish posted. Just mindblowing! No more canings. :)
I suggest a different testing strategy for the future. Give the students all the resources they need to "know", all the time. As Mr. Mitra says, "knowing is obsolete". Let the students consult books, computers, the Internet, each other, and anyone they can get to help, maybe even the teacher ( if she/he is not careful ). FOSS is one of those things. Children of the future should be given tools they can evolve to their needs and share with others. The slogan is: "By any means handy!" The test will be that of imagination, not knowledge. There will be no right answers, because the test-creator won't assume that he/she is smarter than the test-takers. In fact, we should give these wonderkids all the resources they need to imagine, let them self-organize, and sit back and expect to be blown away by their creative solutions. They will come up with things we can't imagine! The current education system doesn't account for the Flynn effect. We have to acknowledge that our kids are going to be smarter than us, and inhabit a very different world than us. Mr. Mitra even suggests that children are an emerging new species, more evolved than Homo Sapiens. What a thought! Orson Scott Card's highly relevant book, "Ender's Game" is being made into a movie. Cheers, - Ashwin. -- ================================================= Subvert the dominant paradigm. Repeat as desired. http://ownlifeful.com/ _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
