AND HERE IT IS: The TED Talk By Sugata Mitra
Mitra leaves computers in the slums of India,embedded in walls so they can not be stolen, and something remarkable happened. People whom never were exposed to a computer before were now using the programs and internet within hours. Within days children were playing games by Disney engines.
In another experiment by Mitra, The Journal for IT International Development published when he gave students with a heavy Indian accent a windows computer with British speech recognition. Two months later the students' accents had changed to fit the computer accent
Aurthor C Clarke on the phone with Sugata Mitra- "Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, should" "if children have interest then educaiotn happens"
Children in Rural Cambodia and India show off their skills on computer games that would otherwise be ignored if a teacher were to present the "boring" game in classroom.
In another experiment by Mitra, The Journal for IT International Development published when he gave students with a heavy Indian accent a windows computer with British speech recognition. Two months later the students' accents had changed to fit the computer accent
Aurthor C Clarke on the phone with Sugata Mitra- "Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, should" "if children have interest then educaiotn happens"
Children in Rural Cambodia and India show off their skills on computer games that would otherwise be ignored if a teacher were to present the "boring" game in classroom.
Mitra Moves to Newcastle to study
In a final challenge Mitra went to south India, gave non-English speaking students computers (with a proficient English leader student in each group) and challenges them to learn bio-engineering in English. Published in British Journal for Education Technology.
Lastly Mitra puts 4 students to a computer, with the rules that you can change groups, look at what other groups are doing, and gave them 6 GCSC questions. The first group finished in 20 minutes, the slowest in 40 minutes. When he came back to test the students traditionally on a paper test, the students had excellent memory that Mitra suspects the group work is to be thanked.
The granny cloud- 500 grandmothers instruct students in india over skype.
Here is a picture of Mitras Self Organized Learning Enviroments where students can work in groups in Newcastle
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