MindShift » Sugata Mitra http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift How we will learn Fri, 24 May 2013 19:50:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 Is the “School in the Cloud” the Future of Learning? http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2013/03/is-the-school-in-the-cloud-the-future-of-learning/ http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2013/03/is-the-school-in-the-cloud-the-future-of-learning/#comments Wed, 06 Mar 2013 16:00:15 +0000 Tina Barseghian http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/?p=27474 Schools, the way they’re currently constructed, are not needed anymore, says educational researcher Sugatra Mitra, founder of Hole in the Wall project in India and winner of the 2013 TED Prize. At his recent TED talk asked the following provocative question: Is knowing obsolete? Sugatra made the following request: help him design the School in the Cloud, a learning lab in India, where children can explore, go on intellectual adventures, and learn from each other — using resources and mentoring from the cloud.

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When kids are having fun, they don’t even realize they’re working. The learning process happens organically: curiosity is piqued, and their quest to learn is turned on like a light switch. Off they go.

Dr. Sugata Mitra’s vision of the future school day revolves around the flip of that switch. And everything in his experience, including his famous “hole-in-the-wall” story, proves it. Provide a wired computer to a group of kids — no matter what their cultural demographic — and they will learn on their own, because they’re interested. Because they want to.

I spoke to Dr. Mitra at the Big Ideas Fest last month, and asked him to articulate how he thinks the school day of the future should be. In his trademark storytelling style, he illustrates that ideal day.

Read more about MindShift’s School Day of the Future here.

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