Children and the Internet – The Future of Learning

Sugata Mitra

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Sugata Mitra takes you on a journey through his key experiments in education – the hole in the wall (1999), Self Organised Learning Environments (SOLEs, 2009), the Granny Cloud (2010) and the School in the Cloud (2013). Sharing key insights from these experiments, he considers the themes of redesigning curriculum, pedagogy and assessment in an environment where children learn by themselves and explores the role of teachers in this new environment. A visionary through his work at SOLE, Sugata shares his thoughts on organisation and technology of the learning environments of the future.

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Sugata Mitra

Educational Researcher and Professor Emeritus, NIIT University

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Sugata Mitra

Sugata Mitra is a researcher, professor, and a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics. He is currently Professor Emeritus at NIIT University, India. In 2019, after 13 years of teaching, he retired as Professor of Educational Technology at Newcastle University in England. He has also been a Visiting Professor at MIT MediaLab in Cambridge, USA. His work in children’s education includes the ‘hole in the wall’ experiment where children access the internet in unsupervised groups, the idea of Self Organised Learning Environments (SOLEs) in schools, the role of experienced educators over the internet in a ‘Granny Cloud’ and the School in the Cloud where children take charge of their learning – anywhere. His interests include Children’s Education, Remote Presence, Self-organising Systems, Cognitive Systems, Complex Dynamical Systems, and Physics and Consciousness. He received, among many global awards, the million-dollar TED Prize in 2013.

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Children and the Internet – The Future of Learning

Sugata Mitra takes you on a journey through his key experiments in education – the hole in the wall (1999), Self Organised Learning Environments (SOLEs, 2009), the Granny Cloud (2010) and the School in the Cloud (2013). Sharing key insights from these experiments, he considers the themes of redesigning curriculum, pedagogy and assessment in an environment where children learn by themselves and explores the role of teachers in this new environment. A visionary through his work at SOLE, Sugata shares his thoughts on organisation and technology of the learning environments of the future.