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- Jill Bergeron on 21 Oct 13
  
  Mitra's experiment- what will kids do with a computer?
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Mitra's experiment- what will kids do with a computer?</div>
  
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“If you put a computer in front of children and remove all other adult restrictions, they will self-organize around it,” Mitra says, “like bees around a flower.”
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“The bottom line is, if you’re not the one controlling your learning, you’re not going to learn as well.”
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Theorists from Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi to Jean Piaget and Maria Montessori have argued that students should learn by playing and following their curiosity.
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The study found that when the subjects controlled their own observations, they exhibited more coordination between the hippocampus and other parts of the brain involved in learning and posted a 23 percent improvement in their ability to remember objects. “The bottom line is, if you’re not the one who’s controlling your learning, you’re not going to learn as well,” says lead researcher Joel Voss, now a neuroscientist at Northwestern University.
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A similar study at UC Berkeley demonstrated that kids given no instruction were much more likely to come up with novel solutions to a problem.
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