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12 Aug 2013

TED winner "Mitra" warns teachers to be ready for change

I am happy to read this article today in LinkedIn post.

Professor Mitra, is a Physicist and teaches Educational Technology at Newcastle University.
Change in system only brings 
entire scenario of education system.

Excerpt  from the article:
“I do not know, I don’t know if there’s a teacher inside us but there’s a learner inside us and that learner, anyway learns all the time. It’s just that he decides what he wants to learn, what is important and what is not important. So if we don’t turn the learner on properly then (it) they doesn’t learn. And I think what some of my Workshops show is that the learner can get  that done by curiosity and by mystery not so much by threat. You can’t say to a learner: now you must learn, he can’t control it if the little learner inside says: “sorry”, then that’s it.”
Well as I’ve said we need some changes in teachers’ training programmes pretty several changes… but most importantly we need a change in the examination system, otherwise my work would appear to be against teachers. It is not against teachers, it is against the kind of teaching the teachers have to do, because of the examination system.”

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