FRONTLINE/WORLD . India - Hole in the Wall 
Mitra decided to place a high-speed computer in the wall, connect it to the Internet, and watch who, if anyone, might use it. To his delight, curious children were immediately attracted to the strange new machine. "When they said, 'Can we touch ...
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Sugata Mitra shows how kids teach themselves
Video from TED Talks
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Richard Baraniuk: Goodbye, textbooks; hello, open-source learning
Richard Baraniuk discusses Connexions from Rice University, where individuals can create open source textbooks and modules that can be repurposed and reused.
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Tim Berners-Lee on the next Web
TED Talks 20 years ago, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. For his next project, he's building a web for open, linked data that could do for numbers what the Web did for words, pictures, video: unlock our data and reframe the way we use it ...
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Siftables
MIT grad student David Merrill demos Siftables -- cookie-sized, computerized tiles you can stack and shuffle in your hands. These future-toys can do math, play music, and talk to their friends, too. Is this the next thing in hands-on learning?
Zach Kaplan and Keith Schacht demo toys from the future
TED Talks The Inventables guys, Zach Kaplan and Keith Schacht, demo some amazing new materials and how we might use them. Look for squishy magnets, odor-detecting ink, "dry" liquid and a very surprising 10-foot pole.
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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi on flow
TED Talks Mihaly Czikszentmihalyi asks, "What makes a life worth living?" Noting that money cannot make us happy, he looks to those who find pleasure and lasting satisfaction in activities that bring about a state of flow.
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