In 2004, Salman Khan, a hedge fund analyst, began posting math tutorials on YouTube. Six years later, he has posted more than 2.000 tutorials, which are viewed nearly 100,000 times around the world each day.
Salman Khan is the founder and faculty of the Khan Academy (http://www.khanacademy.org). It now consists of self-paced software and, with over 1 million unique students per month, the most-used educational video repository on the Internet (over 30 million lessons delivered to-date).
For me the more fascinating in this self-paced tool for education, is its faculty to generate human collaboration: first between students, from advanced ones to less advanced students and from everywhere on the planet, second from the teacher whose position move from repeating the same content again and again to a whole classroom to finding the best way to learn to each student.
On top of that you will certainly enjoy, as I did when I watched the Ted Talk, all the tracking facilities the software gives to adapt education to each person.
Do you think it can be extended to Litterature, Philosophy? To poor countries?
Back in the the last century children were not allowed to read except for studies. If they were caught reading during the day they were told to stop to "do something more useful".
Nowadays parents and teachers are fighting hard to get children read books, prohibiting them at the same time to use computer because "it is a waste of time".
Meanwhile great experts are pointing out that we are in a moment of acceleration of knowledge. Knowledge is for first time in the history of humanity widely accessible at no cost.
What about giving to children a tablet and let them use it to study at no cost with all knowledge up to date at their fingers tips, wonderful free apps, worldwide collaborative learning aprenticeship? Look at Sugata Mitra experience and remember that it tooks four centuries to the "book" (paper publishing) to be used properly by 80% of the population.
How long will it take to understand the use of a "computer" (maybe we must change this name) and get the most of it?
PS: Children can still continue to learn how to write with a pencil but like Chinese or Japanese people do caligraphy, like a spiritual exercise.
Ferran Adrià, the famous spanish head Chef, closed his restaurant. He will reopen it in 2014 after transforming it as a foundation. Goals of the foundation will be the conservation of all the work done by the restaurant in the past and to become a center of Creativity.
The motto of the center of Creativity will be :
- There will be danger, freedom and creativity
- In consequence, there will be no time schedule, no bookings, no routines
"elBulliFoundation : Libertad para crear"
Chefs coming from all over the world will be selected to pass 6 months in the new spanish center and create every day after brainstorming.
Ferran Adriá is looking for new ways of thinking to be creative.
This video is a clear demonstration of how a team can achieve perfection. Each person is doing his best in order that each plate going out of the kitchen is a "0 defect" plate. Something to do with the Japanese master craftsman but in team. Fascinating.
To enjoy with the five sense...and here with two, more than nothing!
"Think out of the box" as always and for ever : we can offer great
services with simple things, often just a tiny twist help a lot more
than a huge "Great Idea". Enjoy this amazing "street art", and observe
the passers-by joy.
Sandra Nkaké
is french with Camerounese origin (like tennisman Yannick Noah). Her first
album "Mansaadi", just coming out this October 21th, is not an essay.
She is singing on stages for a while and she is really eclectic.
I like the way she plays with her voice, one more instrument and one more feeling on stage.
I do not resist the pleasure to publish the recipe my english friend Elisabeth mailed me. Last year we were enjoying so much her "boiled cake" with a "nice cup of tea" sat in front of her chimney in Four Marks.
"This is the basic recipe for what is unappetisingly
called a "boiled cake". When I make it for Christmas I add a lot of glace
cherries to the fruit. For a Christmas cake I make it about 10 days before so
that I can "feed" it for a few days with a small tot of brandy each day - not
too much as it will just run through! You have to
experiment.
Boiled Cake
1cup (large tea cup/small mug) water
1 cup brown sugar
110 grammes butter (+or-)
500g mixed dried fruit
1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
1teaspoon mixed spice
Mix together in a saucepan and bring to the
boil.
Simmer 10-15 mins
Allow to cool (does not have to be
cold)
2cups self raising flour
2eggs
Mix into boiled mixture
Turn into cake tin (16-20 cm
diameter)
Bake on middle shelf @ 150 centigrade for 11/2-2
hours
Turn out on to wire rack to cool
Cover with marzipan a couple of days before
icing.
English people use to represent the typical French guy with on one hand a "camenbert", cheese from Normandy, on the other hand The French Baguette (the typical Parisinian bread) and...a necklace of onions...?! So following our british-reputation, I am proud to show you an authentic french bread, home made from the leaven to the...picture in...Spain. Flours (200g of whole-grain flour,150g white flour,150g rye flour) are coming from Spain and France, the leaven is the mix of the same quantity of wey and rye flour and the pictures were done with my ...eeepc!
Something typical, funny, amazing in your city, in your area, in your neighbour's garden or in your kitchen...put it in Zaragoza DiWiKi . Zaragoza International Expo will close its door next September,15th and it will be nice to extend this "big Hug" with the world through this social website, opened in November 2006 with people living in Zaragoza (Spain). Click on this link to share a little "slice" of your "world" with Zaragoza and more... > http://es.zaragoza.diwiki.org/index.php/Zaragoza_conecta_con_el_mundo (Please write in English,Spanish,French,German or Portuguese/Brazilian)
Last Day in Beijing, time for big sensation at the most spectacular building of this Olympic Games. Attention: ceux qui souffrent du vertige, s'abstenir!* http://tinyurl.com/59hr7l
