Lobbing Laptops
Posted by: pterodidactics on: 4 December, 2011
One Laptop Per Child are going to throw some laptops out of a helicopter at some villages and see what happens. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2395763,00.asp
Everyone thinks this is a terrible idea. They say that learning can’t happen without a teacher.
Hmm… http://www.ted.com/talks/sugata_mitra_the_child_driven_education.html
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5 December, 2011 at 10:03 pm
Hello. Hmmm… I listened to the Sugata Mitra talk on TED a while ago and was amazed and inspired. Yes, learning can happen without a teacher, of course, that’s how all babies/toddlers/infants grow. But it is experience in context. I wonder how relevant the learning from a remote laptop will be without placing that learning into a interrelated environment.