First video was about education and teaching in the remote areas of the world.The basic theme of it was the education in the areas where the teachers wouldn't go to teach. So how to solve this problem? How to make children more educated in such areas? Sugata Mitra, professor of Educational Technology at the School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences at Newcastle University, worked on this project and offered very smart system (as for me) of how to educate children. He made an experiment by putting an Internet-connected computer in a slum in New Delhi and named the experiment "The Hole In The Wall". The experiment shows that children with no education at all and no English language skills can learn at least something only by methods of tries and searches on the global network. It proofs the idea that children are learning the things they are interested in. But even in such cases they need teachers. Unfortunately some remote countries where the poverty level far beyond the minimum limit, do not attract teachers. And that is BAD. High percentage of children in such areas haven´t even been to school in their life so the question is how to rise an entire population without even knowing how to read or write? In my opinion the very first party who should take care about it is government. But with a global corruption and willing to have more, have bigger and better and of cause dozens of other factors, some people (very few) become very very reach but others, like those families and their children in Indian slums can't even afford to go to school and get the basic knowledge of what is going on in this world.
Second video was a bit confusing for me. Jill Bolte Taylor, a neuroanatomist from USA impart the experience of her Stroke Of Insight from 1996, told about how it affects the body. Well, apart from that one side of my brain understood the idea of this presentation and some important points at issue, the second part of MY brain said to me: "Hey there is a lot of scientific stuff in it and I´m getting a hard time of melting the information, why don't you also go to La La Land?" :) Anyway, I found it very cognitive and made me plunged deep in thoughts. A human being can take some drugs and feel the Nirvana or even visit a well known La La Land, but experiencing a stroke with a quite similar side-effects can lead you to unfortunate results. I would recommend this video to others in hope that something will changes in perception of the world.
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thanks. i always enjoy reading what you write : )
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