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Charmian LORD

Sugata Mitra: Build a School in the Cloud | TED Talk Subtitles and Transcript | TED.com - 1 views

  • I tried to look at where did the kind of learning we do in schools, where did it come from? And you can look far back into the past, but if you look at present-day schooling the way it is, it's quite easy to figure out where it came from. It came from about 300 years ago
  • They created a global computer made up of people. It's still with us today. It's called the bureaucratic administrative machine. In order to have that machine running, you need lots and lots of people. They made another machine to produce those people: the school. The schools would produce the people who would then become parts of the bureaucratic administrative machine. They must be identical to each other. They must know three things: They must have good handwriting, because the data is handwritten; they must be able to read; and they must be able to do multiplication, division, addition and subtraction in their head.
  • schools as we know them now, they're obsolete. I'm not saying they're broken. It's quite fashionable to say that the education system's broken. It's not broken. It's wonderfully constructed. It's just that we don't need it anymore. It's outdated.
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  • The Victorians were great engineers. They engineered a system that was so robust that it's still with us today, continuously producing identical people for a machine that no longer exists.
  • We know that people will work from wherever they want, whenever they want, in whatever way they want. How is present-day schooling going to prepare them for that world?
  • If you allow the educational process to self-organize, then learning emerges. It's not about making learning happen. It's about letting it happen.
  • The teacher sets the process in motion and then she stands back in awe and watches as learning happens.
  • We need to shift that balance back from threat to pleasure.
  • think we need a curriculum of big questions.
thaleia66

Sugata Mitra | School in the Cloud | TED.com - 2 views

  • The "Hole in the Wall" project demonstrates that, even in the absence of any direct input from a teacher, an environment that stimulates curiosity can cause learning through self-instruction and peer-shared knowledge.
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    I wonder if 'ask Mr YouTube' comes under the category of peer-shared knowledge? I think the gaming community might think it does if the industry of 'let's play' videos is any indication. I wonder then if this industry might also come under the category of student-generated learning?
ggdines

Sugata Mitra - 1 views

shared by ggdines on 10 Aug 14 - No Cached
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    I have also shared one of his TED talks about the School in the Cloud - very worthwhile.
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    Did you see some of the some of the critical perspectives on Mitra's work in this post http://davidtjones.wordpress.com/2014/07/27/me-as-a-teacher/ ? I very much like the concept of SOLE, but some of the early implementation may have had some flaws. Haven't looked at findings of more recent work.
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