We suggest that you forget for a while what you might usually think about distance learning,
e-teaching, 'one computer per child', and all the other approaches that came to us in waves during the past 10 or so years. Among all the news, there's something that might shape the future, and we think you shouldn't oversee it.
We're not going to start the next marketing hype. We are interested in solutions that work. They are available, but it needs a fresh view to understand how and why they might work.
Just take a look - and think again.
Sugata Mitra: The child-driven education (2010)
Education is a self organizing system, where learning is an emergent phenomenon. Sugata Mitra
There are places on earth, in every country, where,
for various reasons, good schools cannot be built
and good teachers cannot or don't want to go. Sugata Mitra
Sugata Mitra: Self-organizing Systems in Education (2010)
Sir Ken Robinson: Schools Kill Creativity (2006)
Children starting school this year will retire in 2069,
while nobody has a clue
what the world will look like in five years time.
Sir Ken Robinson
A teacher that can be replaced by a computer,
should be. Sir Arthur C. Clarke
Salman Khan on CNN (2010)
Sir Ken Robinson:
Changing Education Paradigms (2010)
Creativity is as important as is literacy.
We should treat them with the same status. Sir Ken Robinson
Learning has to include an amount of failure
because failing is instructional in the process. Diana Laufenberg
Diana Laufenberg: How to learn? From mistakes
VS Ramachandran:
The neurons that shaped civilization (2009)
You have to engage people
before you can teach them. Charles Leadbeater
When kids teach themselves,
it needs one computer with an Internet connection,
and after 6 months,
300 children are computer literate. Sugata Mitra
Chris Anderson:
How Web Video Powers Global Innovation (2010)
Charles Leadbeater:
Education Innovation in the Slums (2010)
By stigmatizing mistakes,
we’re educating our children
out
of their creative capacities. Sir Ken Robinson
Education needs to work by pull, not by push. Charles Leadbeater
Pranav Mistry: SixthSense Technology (2009)
Prof. Sugata Mitra on the Future of Universities (2010)
The university role will shift increasingly towards being a research body and and assessing body. [...] The idea of having hundreds of undergraduate students sitting in a classroom will disappear. Sugata Mitra
