{"id":9660,"date":"2010-09-30T17:34:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-30T21:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=9660"},"modified":"2020-10-14T09:02:30","modified_gmt":"2020-10-14T13:02:30","slug":"sugata-mitra-the-child-driven-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2010\/09\/30\/sugata-mitra-the-child-driven-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Sugata Mitra: The child-driven education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/sugata_mitra_the_child_driven_education.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Sugata Mitra: The child-driven education<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from Ted Talks <em><strong>&lt;&#8211; from DSC: This is well worth your time<\/strong>! <\/em><em><br \/>\nMy thanks to Dr. Kate Byerwalter at Grand Rapids Community College for this item<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/sugata_mitra_the_child_driven_education.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9663\" title=\"TedTalk\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/TedTalk2.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Sugata Mitra: The child-driven education -- A TED Talk\" width=\"356\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/TedTalk2.jpg 356w, https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/TedTalk2-92x150.jpg 92w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 356px) 100vw, 356px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Education scientist Sugata Mitra tackles one of the  greatest problems of education &#8212; the best teachers and schools don&#8217;t  exist where they&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Sugata Mitra&#8217;s &#8220;Hole in the Wall&#8221; experiments have shown that, in  the absence of supervision or formal teaching, children can teach  themselves and each other, if they&#8217;re motivated by curiosity\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sugata Mitra: The child-driven education &#8212; from Ted Talks &lt;&#8211; from DSC: This is well worth your time! My thanks to Dr. Kate Byerwalter at Grand Rapids Community College for this item Education scientist Sugata Mitra tackles one of the greatest problems of education &#8212; the best teachers and schools don&#8217;t exist where they&#8217;re needed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[843,343,32,173,20,66],"tags":[56,658,579],"class_list":["post-9660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-education","category-education-technology","category-pedagogy","category-strategy","category-student-related","tag-educational-technology","tag-pedagogy","tag-strategy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9660"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72630,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9660\/revisions\/72630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}