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Watch any of the videos in this section of Ted talks and you will feel the rising tide of the coming revolution in education. Brilliant people talking about how we learn and how we should teach.

New worlds, or new areas in cyberspace, are being discovered and being applied to education at breakneck speed. The Internet, 3D graphics, QuickTime Movies, Quicktime VR and a multitude of new concepts and ideas are now being promoted on the internet and in leading educational journals throughout the world. It is a major undertaking just to keep abreast of this technological revolution, but the ideas and methods evolving are impacting education in ways no one could foresee just a year or two ago.

Watch the trailer for this documentary. These kids force us to question some basic assumptions we might have about the nature of knowledge and learning. My initial reaction was that this was a hippy school with its steeple stuck in the clouds, but after watching the trailer I feel angry what my own educational experience neglected and guilty for what I'm denying my students.

Watch the trailer for this documentary. These kids force us to question some basic assumptions we might have about the nature of knowledge and learning. My initial reaction was that this was a hippy school with its steeple stuck in the clouds, but after watching the trailer I feel angry what my own educational experience neglected and guilty for what I'm denying my students.