Phil Hands - Slashdot User

Comment make 4 kids share 1, and they teach themselves (Score 2, Interesting) 152

by Phil Hands on Wednesday October 27, 2010 @04:25AM (#34035288) Attached to: Some Aussie High Schools Moving To Two Devices Per Child

as proven by Sugata Mitra (of Hole in the Wall project fame), if you get rid of the teachers and provide one computer per 4 children, and let the kids collaborate, they teach one another

http://www.ted.com/talks/sugata_mitra_the_child_driven_education.html

The quote from Arthur C Clark is particularly telling: Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer.

Submission + - The Total Destruction of Mesopotamian Archaeology (independent.co.uk)

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Birger Johansson

on Monday September 17, 2007 @09:08AM

Birger Johansson writes: "The British newspaper The Independent has a story about the ongoing total destruction of the archaeological heritage of Mesopotamia http://news.independent.co.uk/fisk/article2970762.ece Yours Birger Johansson"

Submission + - Kilogram prototype mysteriously loses weight

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mernil

on Monday September 17, 2007 @08:54AM

mernil writes: "The 118-year-old cylinder that is the international prototype for the metric mass, kept tightly under lock and key outside Paris, is mysteriously losing weight — if ever so slightly. Physicist Richard Davis of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures in Sevres, southwest of Paris, says the reference kilo appears to have lost 50 micrograms compared with the average of dozens of copies. "The mystery is that they were all made of the same material, and many were made at the same time and kept under the same conditions, and yet the masses among them are slowly drifting apart," he said. "We don't really have a good hypothesis for it.""

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