@4:27 If children have interest, education happens (Automatically) ! @9:31 (Teaching) Method of Grandmother : Stand Behind them and admire them all the time. !
Wow, this sent shivers down my spine. This could impact the future in a big way. Mr. Sugata Mitra, I wish you all the best and may be interviewing you in the future.
Kids absorb information so easily, a gift that is much missed by me. Self-learning I believe is one of the most powerful ways of learning, because you aren't being force-fed information but seeking to understand.
I am awestruck by Sugata's developing ideas...I love the idea of that the Internet & access to computers can level the playing field and provide the disadvantaged access to a world of learning opportunities. His ideas of collaboration, 'teaching to learn' and leveraging child interest is inspirational. I am an early childhood teacher and I truly feel that sometimes 'adults' can actually interfere with learning, particularly if learning is not interesting to them...amazing!
This video made me almost cry. I have been fuming for years over the institutionalized child abuse we call "scholastic education", which does little more than severely cripple children's innate curiosity and desire for learning, and instead seems to go out of its way to discourage free, independent thinking and inquiry. Sugata Mitra has given me tremendous hope that we can free ourselves of our present cruel and obsolete system of education
As a home educator for 17 years, this makes PERFECT sense! I have watched how "iron sharpens iron" in my children and in my fellow home school families. A missing factor is the "older teaching the younger", much like the Granny Factor but incorporates older children encouraging younger. This, also, is a POWERFUL reinforcement tool. EXCELLENT TED talk!
I understood his point to be that self-motivated learning, rather than teacher directed learning, has the potential to bring most children into the modern world. There is information and there are teaching videos, both accurate and biased, on every subject you can name... available at pre-school, gradeschool, high school, college, graduate and post graduate levels. All we need to do is facilitate opportunities and support systems for children (and adults).
I appreciate the person who invented the web everyday. Also, thank you so much for the people who share their hard work so freely and the people who take the time to upload it onto the web. Google and RUclips...you guys have revolutionized it again to another level. Thank you all so much.
I was just reading an article about a Mexican teacher, in a really down-and-out, slumish barrio practically on the border of the Texas, in which he applied these same principles to one of his classes. He had no money, no materials, and no help, and his job was to teach these children. At the end of the year, the results were amazing.
Surprisingly even I came to know about Dr. Sugata, from an article about that mexican teacher. And it was a revelation of sorts. have been a fan of him ever since.
I clapped from home when this one ended. its just so brilliant. We are capable of learning, and even better together. this is also an awesome way to use technology to unite the human community, rather than estrange one another.
I think he left out one key factor of the project's success. It puts the adventure back into learning. These kids are invested in a way that doesn't happen when a teacher assigns reading and problems, then a test. Rather than begrudgingly doing what is required of them they have a sense of the infinite. They explore and are delighted in their own discoveries. I love it.
I've always thought the same, I know when I grew up my parents never let me explore never let me have freedom, always forced me to do things their way and my schools ways of teaching was very memory based. I'm suffering now because of it...
This is so powerful. We have the capability now of allowing every child a shot in life towards whatever he wants as long as there is a good broadband connection and a screen.
This is how I learn. I went through all those years of school and didn't know much, but then when I got out and I had my computer and my own interests, things really started to pick up. Even something and silly as posting comments on forums and youtube videos help me learn because I look up people's arguments and respond accordingly. With the computer, they can do what is most important, find the info yourself. Once you can do that, the sky is the limit.
When I saw the little Italians looking at right angles, I grinned and I cannot stop . Then I felt a tear. I cried in joy because children felt excited to LEARN GEOMETRY, something I have no knowledge about until I was 14. This is really something. Around me, my classmates digress learning, and I think it's because of the teaching methods. And look at them! Technology is affecting them very POSITIVELY. I can't contain my happiness, I can't. I really hope teaching will be revolutionised.
While I was watching this I totally epiphaned. The reason the students developed photographic memories is because it's the same as when a hunting party goes in to the woods. The experience of the adventure and the relationships formed are a far more impressionable learning experience than having a Teacher who already knows where all the animals are and will give away "hot and cold" body language clues. 90% of language is body language. That is why you have all these kids waiting for you to tell them what to do next. I don't blame them for being board out of there minds.
Thanks to mailbox5ravi . 4:27 If children have interest, education happens (Automatically) 9:31 (Teaching) Method of Grandmother : Stand Behind them and admire them all the time.
This man, is a true hero. A champion of the future of education. By empowering children to learn themselves as opposed to going through life being "spoon fed" answers, they would forever be on a track to continue educating themselves, long past their days of schooling.
It's true. I have learned twice the amount of French as my classmates have in the last few months than in 2 YEARS of school. After turning to the internet to study with native french speakers, i have improved my understanding to the point that i can navigate French websites, write French songs, hold entire conversations and more. Now i aspire to pursue language professionally and am fully engaged in world issues, current events and much more. These things i used to hate, now i can't get enough.
I cried, really, seeing how beautiful this is. The future is here, that our children will be come smarter than us, and mankind will be come smarter still, breaking boundary to the beyond. there is hope!
I'm impressed with the Indian culture where kids know how to share and work together seemingly by default. Also kudos to the interfaces people programmed that allowed them to figure things out so easily. Nice thing is that kids on their own don't have a bad teacher "beat" the enthusiasm out of them, as too often happens in school. You often learn in school to hate learning, which is sad. Basically what he is doing for kids is what I try to do for myself. Yeah internet!!! So much can learn!!
mr sugata you are a star especially when you help disadvantageous people this is powerfull we hope by the help of mmm many poor countries lives will change
I believe in self teaching. I think schools are going to become more of self correcting. I believe that I am a visual learner and quick learner and always felt, get to the point in class. We are humans, we are capable of learning things. We need guidance and support and having the internet is brilliant. You can learn about anything and teach yourself. I wish I had the internet when I was a child. I tell my son is amazing.
This study is extremely thought provoking. It is amazing how the children learned so much material on their own. Children teaching children how to use computers. They learned new languages and much more information by using computers on their own. The experiment worked in ghettos of India, Cambodia and everywhere it was instituted.
Marvelous proof that autodidactism/unschooling WORKS and extremely well. This provides a beautiful antithesis/alternative to modern compulsory schooling (which is failing us not because of a lack of money but a lack of vision/openness/wisdom).
People, also please take note. his research is not intended to replace teachers. it is to give access to knowledge where teachers are not available. I don't think at all that teachers would be replaced. there have been many new developments in education that would CHANGE the role of teachers, and even in his experiments the childrens' performance greatly improved with introduction of a "grandmother" who encourages, admires and gives confidence to the children.
he is refering to his comment about the level of crime in the areas where there is a lack of good teachers and schools. Since crime and lack of education go hand in hand this is a valid point to make, you're just taking it out of context. If a place is already doing well, with high standards of living, good jobs etc. it stands to reason that the places that aren't doing as well are the ones that 'need it most' in a similar way that a starving person needs food more than someone who isn't.
also note that "schools don't exist" also for those children who drop out to support their families - there is still child labor in many countries of the world. even the best teachers in school would then not be accessible to them, whereas a "hole in the wall" could be a spot they pass by on their way to and from work, which would be accessible to them at any time of their convenience outside of their work hours.
Mr. Mitra, this video helped me to restructure an entire proposal to teach patients...can't thank you enough...God bless you and have a fantastic journey;)
With proliferating money sucking private engineering colleges with very little valuable education provided, it is but a dire need in India to move to something like this. Teaching and learning at an IIT system, I am already seeing an inclination among the students towards a preference to this kind of education. It helps in quite many ways catering to diff ways of learning etc. etc. Brilliant. Hat's off to you Prof.Sugata Mitra. I am game if you think I can participate in your efforts!
Greetings sir. After so many years now, what's your opinion about education in India? On one hand I see private coaching institutes popping up every now and then, and on the other hand we also have amazing AI tools such as ChatGPT
Great natural way of learning. interest is the best motivator! This will be the way to get all of the countries to catch up on their own. If I could, I would pay for it!
This is awesome. give kids the initiative to learn and they don't need walls and schedules to tell them what to read and how to think.. a revolutionary idea.
I live in Finland and the " teachers won't go here" areas don't exist. I have no idea how the Finland phenomenon accured but I'm happy it did. Hyvä Suomi!
Powerful. Inspirational. Movement in a positive direction is better than the latter so why do we want to discuss the theory of positive outcomes or doing something for the greater good, this is the problem... discussions that don't lead to action mainly because of politics always barriers since when do people need politics, politics needs people. The fundamental problem of the world - power hungry not hungry for a world of integrity and acting on what is right or wrong. We must always over complicate everything instead of just being present. face the world. feel the world. heal the world.
I think the biggest theme you can pull from this is that kids are naturally curious. Curiosity is tied to creativity, so if what Sir Ken Robinson is also true, we need to seriously reconsider the education system. While I do not believe there is a "One Size Fits All" system, ideas like these which make use of the most unique talents of a child deserve greater attention.
It is wonderful that we live in a world in which such cool educational experiments can take place! If only the government monopoly schools didn't prevent such creative experimentation.
I oft wonder how the rest of the world will learn. This approach feels like the future. A new Emergence in learning. The next Ramanujan is going to learn from this method.
My younger brother and I learned to use computers and the Internet on our own, for what we needed, eg. playing computer games, searching for songs... And we also learned German by watching German TV and we learned English through playing games on the computer. Same do my nephews.
I don't think this is about "google seraches" or "computer learning". I think Prof Mitra's talk is about 'Self-Learning' in a Group. I think similar results can be achieved if the tool used was a book instead of computer. The key is to promote learning as a group.. Great work Prof Mitra!!
I dont say that they are limited to a certain level of education. What i mean is that eventually they will get used to the technology and especially this way of learning. Im really thrilled to see if that happens.
As a student, I agree completely. The only thing keeping me from dropping out and pursuing the career I KNOW I'm going to live off of (instead of learning things I will never use in this profession inside school), is the fact that I can't get hired without going to college, and I can't go to college without high school.
yet it also means that you understand what you are doing if you cross reference, you'll have to develop an understanding of the material and this is what learning is about: understanding. memorizing won't help you much in the real world, you need to understand
SOLEs take care of that problem, making learners interact as a group using one computer, which provides the 'connective tissue' you are talking about. Sugata Mitra's system is solid.
Wow that's amazing. That's awesome and definitely give me some hope to deal with my learning disability. The internet does seem to help a lot with that.
@Howlciver No, they search and internalize. The ones in "proper" schools memorize. When you are self-motivated and really put effort into finding the information you internalize it better, in my opinion.
His call is not for the removal of school, but rather the way we are taught to learn. The methodology of linear progression and directed learning has made us very identical in our pursuits until we start researching or drop out of schools. Learning and seeking should be a person's direction and not a school or organizations. Globalization will help this method reach the unreachable points of the world, I hope.
We don't have free internet in South Africa, which is an absolute tragedy. Only those who can pay for can learn the amazing potential. I am one of the lucky ones, and am having so much fun learning the most obscure things.
effect may be stronger because it is not part of their usual life. your experiment made in a school made special day for them that didn't happen before, and that's why it was recorded better in their memory. if it was every day, results would start to fall down. Same with kids in rural places. something extraordinary appears that create curiosity of the kids. they can see now something they never have seen before. if that thing becomes ordinary curiosity will disappear.
One of the ideas here is that if doing this in groups you tend to discuss what you are looking up and so it sticks with you, or learning has happened. Using google by yourself you may just look up the answer use it, and move on. It doesn't stay with you.
If this teaching method were to be adopted in a larger capacity, I think it should be done very early to help build good social skills between the children working in groups. It seems to rely on the students themselves to get into discussions that can reinforce information they've learned. I think with good reinforcement, this teaching style could be incredibly useful for promoting group thinking experiments. Thanks CGPGrey, I learned something new and I'm only one video in!
@4:27 If children have interest, education happens (Automatically) !
@9:31 (Teaching) Method of Grandmother : Stand Behind them and admire them all the time. !
Sometimes I forget that there are good people out there, making life better. This is very inspiring and heart-warming to me.
I am novice a teacher.and I am lucky enough to stumble upon this amazing tedtalk.
Wow, this sent shivers down my spine. This could impact the future in a big way. Mr. Sugata Mitra, I wish you all the best and may be interviewing you in the future.
Kids absorb information so easily, a gift that is much missed by me. Self-learning I believe is one of the most powerful ways of learning, because you aren't being force-fed information but seeking to understand.
I am awestruck by Sugata's developing ideas...I love the idea of that the Internet & access to computers can level the playing field and provide the disadvantaged access to a world of learning opportunities. His ideas of collaboration, 'teaching to learn' and leveraging child interest is inspirational. I am an early childhood teacher and I truly feel that sometimes 'adults' can actually interfere with learning, particularly if learning is not interesting to them...amazing!
This video made me almost cry. I have been fuming for years over the institutionalized child abuse we call "scholastic education", which does little more than severely cripple children's innate curiosity and desire for learning, and instead seems to go out of its way to discourage free, independent thinking and inquiry. Sugata Mitra has given me tremendous hope that we can free ourselves of our present cruel and obsolete system of education
As a home educator for 17 years, this makes PERFECT sense! I have watched how "iron sharpens iron" in my children and in my fellow home school families. A missing factor is the "older teaching the younger", much like the Granny Factor but incorporates older children encouraging younger. This, also, is a POWERFUL reinforcement tool. EXCELLENT TED talk!
I understood his point to be that self-motivated learning, rather than teacher directed learning, has the potential to bring most children into the modern world. There is information and there are teaching videos, both accurate and biased, on every subject you can name... available at pre-school, gradeschool, high school, college, graduate and post graduate levels. All we need to do is facilitate opportunities and support systems for children (and adults).
I appreciate the person who invented the web everyday. Also, thank you so much for the people who share their hard work so freely and the people who take the time to upload it onto the web. Google and RUclips...you guys have revolutionized it again to another level. Thank you all so much.
I was just reading an article about a Mexican teacher, in a really down-and-out, slumish barrio practically on the border of the Texas, in which he applied these same principles to one of his classes. He had no money, no materials, and no help, and his job was to teach these children. At the end of the year, the results were amazing.
Surprisingly even I came to know about Dr. Sugata, from an article about that mexican teacher. And it was a revelation of sorts. have been a fan of him ever since.
I clapped from home when this one ended. its just so brilliant. We are capable of learning, and even better together. this is also an awesome way to use technology to unite the human community, rather than estrange one another.
I think he left out one key factor of the project's success. It puts the adventure back into learning. These kids are invested in a way that doesn't happen when a teacher assigns reading and problems, then a test. Rather than begrudgingly doing what is required of them they have a sense of the infinite. They explore and are delighted in their own discoveries. I love it.
As an anarchist and an autodidact who hated school, this makes me insanely happy.
you are doing great job sir. yes this is part of attitude not technology.thank you so much sir.
I've always thought the same, I know when I grew up my parents never let me explore never let me have freedom, always forced me to do things their way and my schools ways of teaching was very memory based. I'm suffering now because of it...
This is so powerful.
We have the capability now of allowing every child a shot in life towards whatever he wants as long as there is a good broadband connection and a screen.
His Ted talks are so interesting he's funny and I ended up watching the whole video.
He is amazing. Blowing my mind. Many thanks to CPG Grey
This is how I learn. I went through all those years of school and didn't know much, but then when I got out and I had my computer and my own interests, things really started to pick up. Even something and silly as posting comments on forums and youtube videos help me learn because I look up people's arguments and respond accordingly. With the computer, they can do what is most important, find the info yourself. Once you can do that, the sky is the limit.
When I saw the little Italians looking at right angles, I grinned and I cannot stop . Then I felt a tear. I cried in joy because children felt excited to LEARN GEOMETRY, something I have no knowledge about until I was 14.
This is really something. Around me, my classmates digress learning, and I think it's because of the teaching methods. And look at them! Technology is affecting them very POSITIVELY. I can't contain my happiness, I can't. I really hope teaching will be revolutionised.
While I was watching this I totally epiphaned.
The reason the students developed photographic memories is because it's the same as when a hunting party goes in to the woods. The experience of the adventure and the relationships formed are a far more impressionable learning experience than having a Teacher who already knows where all the animals are and will give away "hot and cold" body language clues.
90% of language is body language.
That is why you have all these kids waiting for you to tell them what to do next.
I don't blame them for being board out of there minds.
thats an interesting idea!
Thanks to mailbox5ravi
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4:27 If children have interest, education happens (Automatically)
9:31 (Teaching) Method of Grandmother : Stand Behind them and admire them all the time.
Knowledge is power. This guy is a hero. He is teaching the poor and empowering the youth in these areas to help themselves. Genuis
Simply Beautiful and powerful and very insightful ! Great talk Mr Sugata Mitra.
This man, is a true hero. A champion of the future of education.
By empowering children to learn themselves as opposed to going through life being "spoon fed" answers, they would forever be on a track to continue educating themselves, long past their days of schooling.
It's true. I have learned twice the amount of French as my classmates have in the last few months than in 2 YEARS of school. After turning to the internet to study with native french speakers, i have improved my understanding to the point that i can navigate French websites, write French songs, hold entire conversations and more. Now i aspire to pursue language professionally and am fully engaged in world issues, current events and much more. These things i used to hate, now i can't get enough.
I cried, really, seeing how beautiful this is. The future is here, that our children will be come smarter than us, and mankind will be come smarter still, breaking boundary to the beyond.
there is hope!
I'm impressed with the Indian culture where kids know how to share and work together seemingly by default. Also kudos to the interfaces people programmed that allowed them to figure things out so easily.
Nice thing is that kids on their own don't have a bad teacher "beat" the enthusiasm out of them, as too often happens in school. You often learn in school to hate learning, which is sad.
Basically what he is doing for kids is what I try to do for myself. Yeah internet!!! So much can learn!!
He is simply amazing--he saw a need for learning and the impoverished--and he acted! More people like this humbling man
This is just awesome. I wonder how many governments have already put out a hit for him.
mr sugata you are a star especially when you help disadvantageous people this is powerfull we hope by the help of mmm many poor countries lives will change
I believe in self teaching. I think schools are going to become more of self correcting. I believe that I am a visual learner and quick learner and always felt, get to the point in class. We are humans, we are capable of learning things. We need guidance and support and having the internet is brilliant. You can learn about anything and teach yourself. I wish I had the internet when I was a child. I tell my son is amazing.
This study is extremely thought provoking. It is amazing how the children learned so much material on their own. Children teaching children how to use computers. They learned new languages and much more information by using computers on their own. The experiment worked in ghettos of India, Cambodia and everywhere it was instituted.
That was genuinely incredible. A Child's brain is an amazing thing. Makes me want to be a teacher just so I can help a little.
Marvelous proof that autodidactism/unschooling WORKS and extremely well. This provides a beautiful antithesis/alternative to modern compulsory schooling (which is failing us not because of a lack of money but a lack of vision/openness/wisdom).
People, also please take note. his research is not intended to replace teachers. it is to give access to knowledge where teachers are not available. I don't think at all that teachers would be replaced. there have been many new developments in education that would CHANGE the role of teachers, and even in his experiments the childrens' performance greatly improved with introduction of a "grandmother" who encourages, admires and gives confidence to the children.
This is possibly the most upbeat thing I've heard all year.
he is refering to his comment about the level of crime in the areas where there is a lack of good teachers and schools. Since crime and lack of education go hand in hand this is a valid point to make, you're just taking it out of context. If a place is already doing well, with high standards of living, good jobs etc. it stands to reason that the places that aren't doing as well are the ones that 'need it most' in a similar way that a starving person needs food more than someone who isn't.
The truth of this brought me to tears.
The above Mitra sir's talk is our Listening Exercise 🙂 in GMRIT
It's not about the wonders of the internet, it's about inspiring children to teach themselves.
To this day, this remains my favorite TED Talk.
also note that "schools don't exist" also for those children who drop out to support their families - there is still child labor in many countries of the world. even the best teachers in school would then not be accessible to them, whereas a "hole in the wall" could be a spot they pass by on their way to and from work, which would be accessible to them at any time of their convenience outside of their work hours.
Mr. Mitra, this video helped me to restructure an entire proposal to teach patients...can't thank you enough...God bless you and have a fantastic journey;)
With proliferating money sucking private engineering colleges with very little valuable education provided, it is but a dire need in India to move to something like this. Teaching and learning at an IIT system, I am already seeing an inclination among the students towards a preference to this kind of education. It helps in quite many ways catering to diff ways of learning etc. etc. Brilliant. Hat's off to you Prof.Sugata Mitra. I am game if you think I can participate in your efforts!
Greetings sir. After so many years now, what's your opinion about education in India? On one hand I see private coaching institutes popping up every now and then, and on the other hand we also have amazing AI tools such as ChatGPT
TED is the best. Thanks CGP Grey!
This is the coolest thing I've seen in a long time. Thank you, thank you. I was so sick of politics, I'm glad you are here CPG.
Fantastic achievement through the rural poor children.
wow.. the human capacity and potential is insane!!
probably the most important video on you tube.....thank you Sugata Mitra.
Great natural way of learning. interest is the best motivator!
This will be the way to get all of the countries to catch up on their own. If I could, I would pay for it!
One man has started a change that can't be stopped. /applaud.
Nice that Ted braught him back. After his last video 2yrs ago I was wondering how stuff would turn out.
My mind is enlightening!!! My mind is enlightening!!! My mind is enlightening!!!
This is the greatest quotations EVER!!!
This is awesome. give kids the initiative to learn and they don't need walls and schedules to tell them what to read and how to think.. a revolutionary idea.
Superb, inspirational, thank you, sharing with children and parents and teachers I know.
John Taylor Gatto, an award winning teacher, wrote an amazing boon on industrial education. its available online, too.
This is the second one of his videos I've seen and he amazes me more each time he goes for a talk. Wonderful lecture.
I live in Finland and the " teachers won't go here" areas don't exist. I have no idea how the Finland phenomenon accured but I'm happy it did. Hyvä Suomi!
I think the future of education is going to get interesting ! Amar / Dr Dhali.
De las mejores conferencias de TED, increíble!
Powerful. Inspirational. Movement in a positive direction is better than the latter so why do we want to discuss the theory of positive outcomes or doing something for the greater good, this is the problem... discussions that don't lead to action mainly because of politics always barriers since when do people need politics, politics needs people. The fundamental problem of the world - power hungry not hungry for a world of integrity and acting on what is right or wrong. We must always over complicate everything instead of just being present. face the world. feel the world. heal the world.
I think the biggest theme you can pull from this is that kids are naturally curious. Curiosity is tied to creativity, so if what Sir Ken Robinson is also true, we need to seriously reconsider the education system.
While I do not believe there is a "One Size Fits All" system, ideas like these which make use of the most unique talents of a child deserve greater attention.
This is really good to see as an educator,
I now need to try and implement this sort of strategy into my programme.
Sent shivers up my spine too.
Thank you for making the world a better place Sugata.
Not sure why, but this on brought me to tears, We must try this.
the point was the way of learning. When kids are in groups or teams it become way more interesting
It is wonderful that we live in a world in which such cool educational experiments can take place!
If only the government monopoly schools didn't prevent such creative experimentation.
I oft wonder how the rest of the world will learn. This approach feels like the future. A new Emergence in learning. The next Ramanujan is going to learn from this method.
I really like this idea of group learning too. as humans, we are social and this naturally makes sense to me.
My younger brother and I learned to use computers and the Internet on our own, for what we needed, eg. playing computer games, searching for songs... And we also learned German by watching German TV and we learned English through playing games on the computer. Same do my nephews.
Great to see such a maker! "Do or not do, there is no try" :)
Many thanks
This Man hve huge patience to deal with,those childern
I don't think this is about "google seraches" or "computer learning". I think Prof Mitra's talk is about 'Self-Learning' in a Group. I think similar results can be achieved if the tool used was a book instead of computer. The key is to promote learning as a group..
Great work Prof Mitra!!
I dont say that they are limited to a certain level of education. What i mean is that eventually they will get used to the technology and especially this way of learning. Im really thrilled to see if that happens.
Who else here because of CGP Grey
I'm not, but I love his channel! Could you please link the specific vid you're referring to?
James Weaver Just search "CAP Grey education" and you'll find it.
I think Sugata has got it in one.
Governments should have a watch of this.
"We could change everything"...but will we?
Almost everything I've learned has been self-taught. Gone out of my way to teach myself, the internet just makes almost everything I want instant.
Now this is brilliance at its peak!
As a student, I agree completely. The only thing keeping me from dropping out and pursuing the career I KNOW I'm going to live off of (instead of learning things I will never use in this profession inside school), is the fact that I can't get hired without going to college, and I can't go to college without high school.
yet it also means that you understand what you are doing
if you cross reference, you'll have to develop an understanding of the material
and this is what learning is about: understanding. memorizing won't help you much in the real world, you need to understand
SOLEs take care of that problem, making learners interact as a group using one computer, which provides the 'connective tissue' you are talking about. Sugata Mitra's system is solid.
A TED talk with a standing ovation deserves what he asks for.
This is why TED needs to exist ^^
Wow that's amazing. That's awesome and definitely give me some hope to deal with my learning disability. The internet does seem to help a lot with that.
@Howlciver No, they search and internalize. The ones in "proper" schools memorize. When you are self-motivated and really put effort into finding the information you internalize it better, in my opinion.
His call is not for the removal of school, but rather the way we are taught to learn. The methodology of linear progression and directed learning has made us very identical in our pursuits until we start researching or drop out of schools. Learning and seeking should be a person's direction and not a school or organizations. Globalization will help this method reach the unreachable points of the world, I hope.
I always feel so much better about humanities future from watching TEDtalks
We don't have free internet in South Africa, which is an absolute tragedy. Only those who can pay for can learn the amazing potential. I am one of the lucky ones, and am having so much fun learning the most obscure things.
effect may be stronger because it is not part of their usual life. your experiment made in a school made special day for them that didn't happen before, and that's why it was recorded better in their memory. if it was every day, results would start to fall down.
Same with kids in rural places. something extraordinary appears that create curiosity of the kids. they can see now something they never have seen before. if that thing becomes ordinary curiosity will disappear.
How is this not being implemented for Covid learning? Separate pods? Self learning? Technology?
Our evolution of knowledge is proof he's right.
kids have a natural desire to learn...
Stuff like this do give me hope in humanity.
Thank you Sugata!
One of the ideas here is that if doing this in groups you tend to discuss what you are looking up and so it sticks with you, or learning has happened. Using google by yourself you may just look up the answer use it, and move on. It doesn't stay with you.
"If children have interest, then education happens" I've been using that ideal with music for 20 years.
If this teaching method were to be adopted in a larger capacity, I think it should be done very early to help build good social skills between the children working in groups. It seems to rely on the students themselves to get into discussions that can reinforce information they've learned. I think with good reinforcement, this teaching style could be incredibly useful for promoting group thinking experiments. Thanks CGPGrey, I learned something new and I'm only one video in!