Sugata Mitra asserts in this short 2:41 minute video that "groups of children can teach themselves almost anything."
What does that mean to us as teachers? As Dr. Mitra says "the internet is full of answers but not of questions." We have to ask the questions, set the stage, and allow children to use resources at their disposal to learn.
The internet is content rich but some of the content is worthless. We have to teach our children to be discerning readers and researchers.
Discerned from Sugata Mitra's video, Eric Patnoudes posted in his recent blogpost four skills
"modern students of the digital age need to learn:
- First, they should be adept at finding information quickly and easily on the internet.
- Next, he says they have to comprehend what they are reading.
- Third, students will have to organize the information they have discovered in a manner that makes sense.
- Finally, decide which information they will use to make a decision, solve a problem, or accomplish a task.
Mitra goes on to state that with these skills, there is no job or career that a students we educate today, will not be prepared for in their future."
To read the whole post go to The Four Things Modern Students Must Understand
To view the YouTube video about The Hole in the Wall experiment go to http://youtu.be/xRb7_ffl2D0
How can we support groups of children teaching themselves together? What do you think?
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