More than 40% of the people in the world have access to the Internet. Going by growth rates, in less than 10 years, just about everyone will have access. In this talk Sugata Mitra will take us through 20 years of experience with how children and the Internet interact. What influences does the Internet have on children and learning? Under what conditions are these influences optimal for learning? How have these influences changed over time? What is to come?
From travels around the world for 20 years, Sugata describes the changes that schools need to make to become meaningful in a world where what we need to know is no longer evident. From the World Bank funded ‘Hole in the Wall’ project, to the million-dollar TED prize funded ‘School in the Cloud’ project, Sugata describes his experiments with children, collaboration and the Internet. Through experiments carried out in India, the UK, Australia, Latin America and the USA, we glimpse the new literacies that are shaping and changing the nature of learning itself.
‘On the Internet, we know before we learn’, Sugata quotes from a 12-year-old in London. A sentence that forecasts ‘the end of knowing’, as he puts it.
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