Thursday, 28 January 2010

Educational technology

Do they really need us?
A talk on TED about the interesting Hole in the wall project.

4 comments:

Rainbow Scientist said...

Teachers are definitely needed to motivate, guide and provide support network. Of course for doing this, teachers have to be competent learner by themselves. Learning is completely independent of the teaching process. Following link is about exactly the same thing in different context.

http://rainbow-science.blogspot.com/2010/01/lovely-video-on-teaching-and-learning.html

L said...

I saw this on your blog, but am not able to hear it loud enough.Also, initially, the 1:20 was a bit intimidating-- so decided to listen to it in instalments.

Rainbow Scientist said...

try the direct link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwslBPj8GgI

if there is still a problem with sound, than it could be at your end.

L said...

Yes tried that and came to the conclusion that I do not have the right media player or some such thing...I am not too savvy with computers.

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