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The Second MITx lecture
Talked about validity, soundness and convincingness of arguments.
Was stuff I learnt a while back, but put it into interesting context using the argument from the last lecture.
Still motivated to do all of this, really enjoying this one.
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Another TED talk for you.
Watched this and thought about how many people feel that money is the aim of education. To learn and to get a job because of that BA or MA, that will pay well for you to get a nice car etc.
One thing I've learnt from my experience of wealthy people is this:
People who were born into money, are a lot less generous with it than people who earned it themselves, coming from more humble beginnings. I think this is because they are educated, not schooled. They have followed their own path, and learnt as they went.
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First MITx Lecture
I’ve just finished the first lecture of the first part of the MITx Course: 24.00x Introduction to Philosopy: God, Knowledge and Consciousness.
This talked about the concept of arguing the existence of God. It featured, mainly, Anselm’s argument, which I would never have understood without the passionate explanation from the Lecturer. It was almost basic stuff but left you thinking.
If I can keep this up I see me learning lots, and enjoying it too.
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Al Gore spoke about how at school one of his friends (around 8 or 9 years old) asked the teacher in a geography lesson, whether the continents on the atlas used to fit together.
The teacher very quickly replied "Son't be stupid." A few years later the theory of tectonic plates was finally accepted around the world.
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Another video from TED on how children's creativity is asphyxiated by school teachers saying what can and can't be done.
People used to believe it was impossible to travel around the world, because it was flat.
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What this is:
Like the description says, I'm here to try and find out whether or not it's possible and beneficial to study using the internet. As of 2012 there were 2 billion people with access to the internet. In the USA 95% of children between the age of 12 and 17 have access; for 17-19 year olds this increases. 72% of 12-17 year olds have a mobile phone 92% of 17-19 year olds.
We have the internet at our fingertips, something that is the collation of pretty much the entirety of what humanity knows about the world.
The newest addition to online education is MOOCs, Mass Open Online Courses. I was talking to an Australian who's put me up for a few days about this, he got heated and tried to explain how they don't work, citing that "They only have a 5% completion rate." Of course they do, this is a system that's only been introduced in the last two years, there are very few people taking them seriously. If you consider what Sugata Mitra shows (view last post) how independent group study among children is successful, then maybe the best way is with MOOCs? To get people inspired among themselves, rather than expect a single person to sit at their computer with facebook a tab away and concentrate.
Nevertheless, I've signed up for an MITx course on Philosophy, and hopefully can motivate myself to finish it.
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This is where it all started for me. I never truly thought of the internet as a way to educate, although I'd spent a hell of a lot of time learning from it. From sport, to what books to read, we learn so much from the web.
In terms of education about things you wouldn't usually look for but give inspiration TED is brilliant.
Sugata Mitra is a genius, proving that children can teach themselves, pretty much anything, with the internet and their own curiosity, when not discouraged by other. He also wrote a book with is well worth reading called: Beyond the Hole in the Wall
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