With rapid advancements in classroom technology and increasing numbers of teachers sharing innovations across the web, who knows what teaching and learning will look like in ten years' time? Get a glimpse with Alex Jones, as he investigates some of the many exciting movements going on around the world.
The school in the sky
Slumdog Millionaire is one of the most famous movies of recent years. A multi-Oscar winning production, it told the uplifting story of a teenage orphan from the slums of Mumbai who won the Indian version of the quiz show, 'Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?'.
The story of the film is a fascinating one, not least because no one – not the game show host, nor the police – could understand how 18-year-old Jamal has amassed the knowledge to correctly answer a series of challenging questions. How can an uneducated kid from the streets, with no schooling to speak of, do so well?
The plot didn't actually use quite as much artistic licence as one might expect. The script for the 2008 movie was adapted from the 2005 novel, Q&A, and the inspiration for that came from a real-life educational project of a few years before.