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's "Hole in the Wall" experiments have shown that, in
the absence of supervision or formal teaching, children can teach
themselves and each other, if they're motivated by curiosity and peer
interest. Full bio »"Education-as-usual assumes that kids are empty vessels who need to be sat down in a room and filled with curricular content. Dr. Mitra's experiments prove that wrong."Linux Journal
