Sugata Mitra at Big Ideas Fest Next Week
I’m looking forward to meeting Sugata Mitra at Big Ideas Fest. I’m planning to interview him and other big thinkers in the field of education innovation.
In the meantime, take a look at this recent TED Talk video, in which Mitra talks about real-life experiments from New Delhi to South Africa to Italy, where he gave kids self-supervised access to the web and saw results that could revolutionize how we think about teaching.
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