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. (Recorded at TEDGlobal 2010, July 2010 in Oxford, UK. Duration: 17:14)
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commented on Sep 18 2011
Inspiring.
Roan Carratu commented on Apr 2 2011
OMG! Finally, sanity! We are beginning to become civilized! It’s about time! Best Ted Talk I’ve ever seen!
Cherry Advincula commented on Sep 28 2010
Amazing Talks! Problems need to be addressed.
commented on Sep 23 2010
The “Granny cloud” is brilliant!
Al Meyers commented on Sep 7 2010
One of the best TED Talks I have ever seen – and I’ve seen a LOT of them :)