Our failing schools. Enough is enough!

Education advocate 'Geoffrey Canada'  in TED talk.

"The testing that we do....is in April. You know when we’re going to get the results back? May be July, may be June. And the results have great data. They tell ‘Raheem’ really struggles, could not do two-digit multiplication---so great data, but you’re getting it back after school is over. And so, what do you do."
"Why, why, why does our education system look so similar to the way it did 50 years ago?"

what to you say?

Teachers need real feedback

Bill Gates "with no feedback, no coaching, there’s just no way to improve, even great teachers can get better with smart feedback"

What to you say?

Quadcopters

A small group of young people who are able to understand the principles of nature are able to create a astonishing devise.

Education means not getting certificates, but getting knowledge.

At TEDGlobal, Raffaello D'Andrea demos his flying quadcopters:

Robots that think like athletes, solving physical problems with algorithms that help them learn. In a series of nifty demos, D'Andrea show drones that play catch, balance and make decisions together -- and watch out for an I-want-this-now demo. 

How we read each other's minds

Sensing the motives and feelings of others is a natural talent for humans. But how do we do it? Here, Rebecca Saxe shares fascinating lab work that uncovers how the brain thinks about other peoples' thoughts -- and judges their actions.

" How can we know ..other people have mind"

" why it is so hard to change what some body wants or believes?

" as a teachers and as a spouse i confronted with this problem every day"

Cow operates handpump to drink water

In my opinion this ‘cow’ observed the water source. Understood that human are swinging  the handle to get water. May be analysed how it will get, either using front legs or tail, but using its previous experiences might thought better use the head and horns. Implemented to get the results. 
If it is able to teach this to its folks or to its cub, it will generate knowledge in its society.

As someone said, "learning is a natural phenomenon, making it a systematic process is major aim of education. Converting what it learned into knowledge is the basic challenge of the society”

Watch this video and offer you feed back.

How I built a windmill

When he was just 14 years old, Malawian inventor William Kamkwamba built his family an electricity-generating windmill from spare parts, working from rough plans he found in a library book.

Look at the video to know more.....

Invention that made peace with lions

In the Masai community (Kenya) where 13-year-old Richard Turere lives, cattle are all-important. But lion attacks were growing more frequent. In this short, inspiring talk, the young inventor shares the solar-powered solution he designed to safely scare the lions away.

Don't forget observation and understanding many time leads interest in a invention. Is that the meaning of education?

How we found the giant squid

Edith Widder combines her expertise in research and technological innovation with a commitment to stopping and reversing the degradation of our marine environment.

Humankind has been looking for the giant squid (Architeuthis) since we first started taking pictures underwater. But the elusive deep-sea predator could never be caught on film. Oceanographer and inventor Edith Widder shares the key insight -- and the teamwork -- that helped to capture the squid on film for the first time.

Look at the unknown underwater world, how science, technology and  enthusiasm make things possible. 

A 3D atlas of the universe

This is a virtual tour video of universe in 3D.

Created by ‘Carter Emmart’ director of Astrovisualization at the American Museum of natural History coordinating with scientist and programmers over 12 yrs of time.

Please watch this wonderful video to understand as humans how small we are and also to charm how great we are to explore the universe/nature.

May be someone, somewhere in the universe looking at us amazingly and thinking ‘how these hopping monkeys from forests evolved to jump into the space’

Sun and Earth's Magnetism

Look at this video presented by History channel.

Understand how sun a major source of existence of life on earth also threatens it.

Look at the satellite images of earth magnetic field to understand how we are protected by it and how the natural wonders like ‘aura’ are caused by it.