Sugata Mitra’s “The Child-Driven Education”

Sumire Itano

Who is Sugata Mitra?

Professor of Educational Technology

he made a presentation of “Build a School in the Cloud” and he won the TED prize of 2013.

children can sit in front of big, powerful screens, big broadband connections, but in groups.

greatest problems of education

There are places　 good schools cannot be built and good teacher cannot or do not want to go.

“ Hole In the Wall” experiment in Delhi in 1999

children will learn to do what they want to learn to do.

all children can learn to use computers and the Internet

He thought…

if children have interest, then education happens.

children can learn even if there is no teacher.

But children can enjoy studying if there is supporter.

A self-organizing system is where a structure appears without explicit intervention from the outside. Self-organizing systems also always show emergence, which is that the system starts to do things, which it was never designed for. Education is self-organizing system, where learning is an emergent phenomenon.

Article(Asahi newspaper of June 18th,2014)

Some students in local areas have less opportunities or facilities

ICT education is expected to Supplement Disadvantage compared with school in cities using free teaching materials on the Internet

Conclusion

References

http://www.jagranjosh.com/current-affairs/sugata-mitra-awarded-the-milliondollar-ted-prize-for-extraordinary-creativity-1362037088-1

Article(Asahi newspaper of June 18th,2014)