Sugata Mitra: TED Prize-Winner for School in the Cloud | TIME.com - 0 views
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Doug Breitbart on 05 Mar 13" He is a professor and educator named Sugata Mitra, famous for having put a computer in a hole in a wall in a slum in India and discovering that, left alone, children can teach themselves an amazing amount, starting with technical literacy. "In nine months a child left alone with a computer would reach the same standard as an office professional in the West," he said in his TED talk last night after accepting the prize."