Name: The child-driven education
Uploaded: 2010-09-07T09:11:00Z
Duration: 16 min 56 s
Description: Education scientist Sugata Mitra tackles one of the greatest problems of education -- the best teachers and schools don't exist where they're needed most. In a series of real-life experiments from New Delhi to South Africa to Italy, he gave kids self-supervised access to the web and saw results that could revolutionize how we think about teaching.

Education scientist Sugata Mitra tackles one of the greatest problems of education -- the best teachers and schools don't exist where they're needed most. In a series of real-life experiments from New Delhi to South Africa to Italy, he gave kids self-supervised access to the web and saw results that could revolutionize how we think about teaching.

Sugata Mitra: The child-driven education

The child-driven education

Children's innate curiosity and ability to self-organize unleash unexpected learning potential when given free internet access.

A simple experiment in New Delhi slums shows children can learn complex subjects like English and computers without formal teaching.

The concept of a 'Granny Cloud' demonstrates how remote, supportive adult interaction fuels children's learning and confidence globally.