myClass Advanced, 3 July 2019

In our last two classes, we’ve talked a lot about education – MOOCs last week and yesterday, life skills. Here are a couple of interesting talks about education. I’ve suggested a clip from each, but be warned – you might want to watch the whole thing once you start!

Here, Sugata Mitra talks about children in a slum in India teaching themselves to use a computer:
https://youtu.be/y3jYVe1RGaU?t=245 Listen from around 4:00 to 7:00.

In this extract, Sir Ken Robinson talks about a drawing of God and Shakespeare as a child. Listen from 4:30 to 7:45. https://youtu.be/iG9CE55wbtY?t=329

Here’s the Facebook page of the ex student  I told you about who ended up in a wheelchair after a trip to Brazil, and who changed university course from medicine to nutrition: https://www.facebook.com/catarina.oliveira.14268769
You can link to her IG and YouTube channels from there.