[Olpc-open] [IAEP] Mitra's talk on hole in the wall

[Rakesh Biswas]

Hi Sameer,

You might be interested in his blog (which reveals interesting facets of his
personality) that is if you haven't seen it already:

http://sugatam.blogspot.com/

regards,

rakesh


On 1/14/09, Sameer Verma <sverma at sfsu.edu> wrote:
>
> Just saw Sugata Mitra's talk at Lift (http://liftconference.com/) on
> the hole-in-the-wall experiment and the data they collected. Most
> impressive was the concept of self-organized learning that happened in
> these places.
> http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/sugata_mitra_shows_how_kids_teach_themselves.html
> It goes against all the talk about teacher training, etc.
>
> Sameer
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