A teacher's plea for more educated Malaysians to try teaching at least once.

Problem solving requires so much brain power that there can be no room left for remembering simple rules.

Professor Jo Boaler says students most effectively learn "math facts" working on problems they enjoy, rather than through exercises and drills they fear. Timed testing and blind memorization damage children's experience of math, she sa ...

Bill Gates went to Arizona to see what the future of college might look like.

Richard Branson talks about Professor Todd Rose's book The End of Average and refers to his own experience as a high school dropout.

Formal tests can’t measure complex ideas and creative thinking – so the University of Essex has ditched them altogether

Speaking at LIFT 2007, Sugata Mitra talks about his Hole in the Wall project. Young kids in this project figured out how to use a PC on their own -- and then taught other kids. He asks, what else can children teach themselves?

Onstage at TED2013, Sugata Mitra makes his bold TED Prize wish: Help me design the School in the Cloud, a learning lab in India, where children can explore and learn from each other -- using resources and mentoring from the cloud. Hear his inspiring ...

Hello everyone, I'm yungching :)

New around here, still trying to figure out exactly how this works. I'm not a regular user of Reddit, hehe, so I'll take some time to adjust. I'm a student, and I enjoy drowning myself in the sea of knowledge that the internet is :v

I also started a tribe (not sure if that's recommended on one's first day here?), called Rethinking Education. I hope it can become a platform to discuss the creative ways educators across the world reach out to students weaker academically and children who don't have access to formal education, and especially to discuss how they are adapting to the times :)

In this talk from RSA Animate, Sir Ken Robinson lays out the link between 3 troubling trends: rising drop-out rates, schools' dwindling stake in the arts, and ADHD. An important, timely talk for parents and teachers.