The Kindle made ebooks popular, but the ipad and other mobile devices are making us question both… [more]
I gave a TEDx talk last Saturday on the future of learning, which, like the past and the present, is… [more]
I gave a talk at NIAS on M-Theories, which is my approach to the intersection of mind, metaphysics and… [more]
Modern technology offers new ways of story telling and of combining images narrative and other media.… [more]
Learning should be Continuous, Contextual and Creative. Instead it is Discrete, Disconnected and Dull. I… [more]
The Kindle made ebooks popular, but the ipad and other mobile devices are making us question both the form and the function of books. Authors, publishers and academics are all interested in the future the book. I am at an MIT event about the future of the book. This is an academic event but…
I gave a TEDx talk last Saturday on the future of learning, which, like the past and the present, is tied to the future of the book. You can see the prezi of my talk here. via Prezi
We had a pretty productive thinkbinder discussion hour yesterday night. There were about seven or eight participants (10% of the class, not bad in my opinion). Two observations about the discussion itself: Even a chat window is a productive tool for strangers interacting for the first time, as long as we are interested in…
Learning should be Continuous, Contextual and Creative. Instead it is Discrete, Disconnected and Dull. I don’t see how our educational institutions (see the picture above) can ever hope to bridge this gap. Is it time to tear down the entire superstructure of education and create a new edifice? Certainly in a country like India which doesn’t have a history of a reasonably…
As IT makes further inroads into the world of education, I predict that the education world will start resembling the newspaper and publishing world. Many independent vendors (i.e., schools and colleges) will go out of business, some large institutions will start acquiring other large and small institutions and all of them will be threatened by…
I just read a wonderful piece on the state of education in Tamil Nadu. A retired bureaucrat, Mr. T.K Chandrashekaran, filed an RTI application to find out whether government school teachers send their kids to government schools or private schools. The results are shocking, if predictable: Out of a reported total of 47,030 primary and…
Educational institutions in India run from mediocre to abysmal. The demand for good education is incredibly high. Poor parents are willing to spend a large portion of their income to send their child to private “English” medium school. As I found out this weekend, even the richest people are worried about their children’s admission to…