Deb Roy: The birth of a word

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MIT researcher Deb Roy wanted to understand how his infant son learned language -- so he wired up his house with videocameras to catch every moment (with exceptions) of his son's life, then parsed 90,000 hours of home video to watch "gaaaa" slowly turn into "water." Astonishing, data-rich research with deep implications for how we learn.

About Deb Roy

Deb Roy studies how children learn language, and designs machines that learn to communicate in human-like ways. Currently on sabbatical from MIT Media Lab, he's working with the AI company Bluefin… Full bio and more links

Salman Khan: Let's use video to reinvent education

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

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Salman Khan talks about how and why he created the remarkable Khan Academy, a carefully structured series of educational videos offering complete curricula in math and, now, other subjects. He shows the power of interactive exercises, and calls for teachers to consider flipping the traditional classroom script -- give students video lectures to watch at home, and do "homework" in the classroom with the teacher available to help.

About Salman Khan

In 2004, Salman Khan, a hedge fund analyst, began posting math tutorials on YouTube. Six years later, he has posted more than 2.000 tutorials, which are viewed nearly 100,000 times around the world… Full bio and more links

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