Learning new things

In class we watched two videos on Ted.com, one about a man, Sugata who is researching if how children learn and if computers and the internet is a good way to do it, and the other about woman named Jill who had a stroke and is explaining the experience that came with it.

In the video he shows slides and videos from when he put computer in the wall in a slum in India, and how the children use it even if they have never touched a computer before in their live. It also showed how the children suddenly were able to search the internet for information's, it's amazing how fast children can learn to do new things, the guy even made 12 year old girl from India learn little biotechnology in university english in two months, I think that's awesome. ;)
Then he went on with his research and expanded it to more countries, like Africa and England. He but up skype conversations where women in England help children in India to speak english with understandable accent, and working on building centers where children can study together with big screens. He is now working on bigger research that will take time and lot of work, but I really admire him for his dedication on this research and how many children he has helped.

Here is Sugata's video

The other video was about woman Jill who had a stroke, or bleeding in her left center where language, letters, numbers and that kind of things are. She described what it was like and said it was like a hole another world where she could feel the energy and the universe around her, and how she was puled in and out of it. Must have been scary but amazing at the same time, though I hope I wont have a stroke ever.
But I liked how she looked at it as a big adventure or experience, and focused on the thing she discovered and learned.

Here is link to her video