Tuesday, May 24, 2016

Children can teach themselves using computers

http://www.ted.com/talks/sugata_mitra_the_child_driven_education?language=en

Education scientist Sugata Mitra tackles one of the greatest problems of education — the best teachers and schools don't exist where they're needed most. In a series of real-life experiments from New Delhi to South Africa to Italy, he gave kids self-supervised access to the web and saw results that could revolutionize how we think about teaching.

More from Sugata Mitra
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Sugata+Mitra

Wednesday, May 18, 2016