Tuesday, January 31, 2012

sebastian thrun

via @uncollege

prof thrun drops out of stanford - udacity

video
googles lab for wildest dreams
vie sagt mann. love it.
160000 students for ai via stanford

instead of lecturing we would quiz
principal way of engaging.. the student has to think

they prefer him on video (30000 a year) - because they can watch in lurk mode
volunteer - 2000 translators







these are not your typical stanford students




let them fail and i'd come to their rescue.
there was no purpose of weeding, no certificate to be earned
we don't set up kids for success but for failure
we don't help our students become smart
grades are the failure of the ed system
rather than grading, get everyone to a+
?
today, when kids get a c, we don't take the time to bring them up to an a
this medium is giving us the opportunity to do that

in response to comments - how can you teach with 160000




change the world with ed, free for world, core of a society

stop empowering the prof's and start empowering the students

in 7 weeks - anyone could build their own google. search engine..










part of this.. is getting rid of compulsion... esp in k-12.. no?

thank you sebastian, and dale and sal, and ...


love this via Sebastian:
the real question is not, what's going to happen to the uni, but what's going to happen to the people...

his company 50% female.
classes 10% female.
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