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#185. TED Talkin’: Sugata Mitra’s quietly powerful challenge to education norms
Sugata Mitra is one of the few people to have five TED Talks. Why?
He’s a perfect combination of scientific, challenging norms and soft-spoken charm.
As a theoretical researcher with an interest in education and the role of the internet, Sugata’s “Hole in the Wall” experiment has become a famed example in how kids can self-organize and essentially teach themselves anything with access to the internet. And no, that’s not a bad thing at all.
He first tried this in remote areas in India and has since replicated it all over the world. Sugata’s conclusions from these experiments vary, but they all…
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