A little brain food for lunch breaks

Thinking about this week, I was having a hard time trying to decide about things that I wanted to say.  Finally, I decided to let other people do the talking, because these are some people who know stuff, and I think it is the stuff that can be connected easily to education.

First:  Sugata Mitra Showing how education can be a self generated system.  

Ever wonder what kids can do without any good formal education?   This is the type of learning that was studied in India.  It is about a 20 minute video, but very interesting for thinking about the ability kids have to teach themselves. 

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/sugata_mitra_shows_how_kids_teach_themselves.html

Next up, Ken Robinson says that schools kill creativity.  Not much for me to say here, but this is a fantastic talk about how the school systems in the world are formed, with a question or two about how well formed they are.  

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html

Following that, math can actually be cool.

http://www.ted.com/talks/arthur_benjamin_does_mathemagic.html

And last, Benjamin Zander on Music and Passion.  Piano piece with an interesting discussion about how we all actually love classical music.  

http://www.ted.com/talks/benjamin_zander_on_music_and_passion.html

There's a few things that are nice and interesting, some real interesting things coming from me as we progress