A thread to share interesting links on children's education

[Vijay]

http://nayagam.wordpress.com/2007/06/03/arvind-guptas-website/

interesting links on that page about a past winner of the national
award for the popularisation of science amongst children.

[Vijay]

Dr. Lodis Rhodes, Professor of Public Policy at LBJ school at the
University of Texas, recommends that we take a look at this page:

http://criticalthinking.org/starting/index.cfm

[Vijay]

aditya bhasham (IIT Bombay / Kellogg school / McKinsey & co.)
recommends this site:

http://ja.org/

[chet]

Did you go for a class to learn how computer operates? You didn't need
it, right? Nor do the kids in rural areas!
Sugato Mitra's experiment is quite fascinating in terms of rural
education and the process of learning itself.

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/sugata_mitra_shows_how_kids_teach_themselves.html

[Vijay]

http://www.hulu.com/watch/60126/the-simpsons-how-the-test-was-won

An interesting Simpsons episode on testing.

[Rajdeep Pakanati]

Here is a brief note on an interesting scholar Ivan Illich's work, who examines how schooling is carried out in modern societies.

http://www.infed.org/thinkers/et-illic.htm

[Vijay]

just saw this on CNN and ran a search: an interesting social
networking project that connects student entrepreneurs at american
colleges.

http://www.kairossociety.com/

[chet]

http://www.digantar.org/philosophy.html

just a look at what's being done..
k