{"id":1280,"date":"2010-03-11T10:58:28","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T15:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punyamishra.com\/?p=1280"},"modified":"2010-03-11T10:58:28","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T15:58:28","slug":"ted-is-bullshit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/2010\/03\/11\/ted-is-bullshit\/","title":{"rendered":"TED is bullshit :-)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Evrim Baran<\/a> (who I often joke is the only<\/em> reader of this blog) sent me this link to a set of notes by Jeff Jarvis from a TED talk he recently gave. He says that he<\/p>\n

used the opportunity of a TED event to question the TED format, especially in relation to education, where \u2014 as in media \u2014 we must move past the one-way lecture to collaboration.<\/p>\n

Check out TEDxNYed: This is bullshit<\/a><\/p>\n

Here is a key quote, but go ahead the whole thing<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So we need to move students up the education chain. They don\u2019t always know what they need to know, but why don\u2019t we start by finding out? Instead of giving tests to find out what they\u2019ve learned, we should test to find out what they don\u2019t know. Their wrong answers aren\u2019t failures, they are needs and opportunities.<\/p>\n

But the problem is that we start at the end, at what we think students should learn, prescribing and preordaining the outcome: We have the list of right answers. We tell them our answers before they\u2019ve asked the questions. We drill them and test them and tell them they\u2019ve failed if they don\u2019t regurgitate back our lectures as lessons learned. That is a system built for the industrial age, for the assembly line, stamping out everything the same: students as widgets, all the same.<\/p>\n

But we are no longer in the industrial age. We are in the Google age. Hear Jonathan Rosenberg, Google\u2019s head of product management, who advised students in a blog post. Google, he said, is looking for \u201cnon-routine problem-solving skills.\u201d The routine way to solve the problem of misspelling is, of course, the dictionary. The non-routine way is to listen to all the mistake and corrections we make and feed that back to us in the miraculous, \u201cDid you mean?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the real world,\u201d he said, \u201cthe tests are all open book, and your success is inexorably determined by the lessons you glean from the free market.\u201d<\/p>\n

One more from him: \u201cIt\u2019s easy to educate for the routine, and hard to educate for the novel.\u201d Google sprung from seeing the novel. Is our educational system preparing students to work for or create Googles? Googles don\u2019t come from lectures.<\/p>\n

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