The Future of Learning | Sugata Mitra | TEDxNewcastle

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Almost twenty years of experiments with children's education takes us through a series of startling results – children can self organise their own learning, they can achieve educational objectives on their own, can read by themselves. Finally, the most startling of them all: Groups of children with access to the Internet can learn anything by themselves. The mechanism of this kind of learning seems similar to the appearance of spontaneous order, or ‘emergent phenomena’ in chaotic systems.

From the slums of India, to the villages of India and Cambodia, to poor schools in Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, the USA and Italy, to the schools of Gateshead and the rich international schools of Washington and Hong Kong, Sugata's experimental results show a strange new future for learning.

Using the 2013 TED Prize, he has built seven ‘Schools in the Cloud’, where Self Organised Learning Environments (SOLEs) and a ‘Granny Cloud’ of mediators over the Internet, interact with unsupervised children. Sugata will present the main findings.

We begin to see some glimpses of what schools should be for and what curricular, pedagogic and assessment changes will be required in the future.

In this talk, Sugata will discuss what steps existing schools can take in order to prepare themselves for the changes that are, inevitably, going to come.

Follow Sugata on @sugatam Sugata Mitra is Newcastle University’s Professor and Principal Investigator of Educational Technology, and world-wide known expert of self-organising systems. A physicist by training, he has worked on Organic Semiconductors, Energy Storage Systems, Bots, Remote Presence, complex dynamical systems. Since 1999, the focus of his research has been on primary learning and the Internet.

Sugata has achieved international acclaims for his successful ‘Hole in the Wall’, ‘Self Organised Learning Environments’ (SOLEs) and ‘School in the Cloud’ experiments on unsupervised learning amongst groups of children.

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"We don't need people who can tell the time without looking at the watch" best quote ever!

marofe

Sugata Sir- You are an amazing person! What this study finds is incredible

The future looks bright

Silwiz

Intelligence, simplicity, and humor to bring knowledge forward, bravo.👏

nickrobinson

If you're wearing headphones, turn the volume down at 5:53 or else you WILL go deaf

davedanger

Definitely on to something here, traditional schooling needs an overhaul. It isn’t what we need. I first heard his original Ted Talk now 7+ years ago (wow time flys). My inquiry is does this method create a predisposition to trust information and sources? How does critical thinking and questioning everything develop with this method of education? Do the kids get trained to trust sources and information? Or do will they actually question it even from a seemingly valid source?

lseul

"...How does critical thinking and questioning everything develop..."
One thing is well proven:- it does not happen as a result of compulsory state schooling.
Schooling may provide, 1 ) some ability to survive in the competitive job market and 2) more importantly, a reasonably functioning child-minding service.

jabel

Well I believe early childhood require a kind of education which will help them to communicate more express no build a rich vocabulary, to build their cognitive ability!
Emotional health! And to learn how to learn, how to think!
This can help early childhood!

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