The child-driven education

The child-driven education: Sugata Mitra on TED.com

Jill Bolte Taylor's stroke of insight | Video on TED.com

These TED talks are pretty thought provoking. I found the second talk, with Jill, especially interesting. Disconnecting from the left hemisphere to embrace the hidden "power" of the right one. Sounds like a lame infomercial, but if it were possible to do, with out the tumor and all, it would be pretty amazing.

And this ties into the other video with Sugata.  The children in the Indian slums had never even heard of a computer, but still picked it up amazingly quick. Did they learn this quickly because they were using the right hemisphere more than the left.



But this could also be because they are children. Their actions are not clouded by passed experiences so they don´t assume anything. So this research would not help teens/adults with learning, unless there were a way to disconnect from the left hemisphere...

... omg I´m so deep lol ble