Archive for May 7th, 2011
Daily Diigo Bookmarks from Steve Yuen 05/08/2011
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Sugata Mitra: The child-driven education
Posted in 21st Century Education, Educational Technology, tagged child-driven, education, internet, schools, web on May 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This is a thought provoking video presentation produced by TED in last September. In this video, 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.























