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Wednesday, July 20, 2011
TED talks - Sugata Mitra: The child-driven education
In the TED talk posted above, the speaker makes conclusions about education that are relevant to our present discussion of Participatory Action Research (PAR)
The author of the talk is Sugata Mitra. Mitra, who's now a professor of educational technology at Newcastle University (UK), talks about child-driven education, or what he calls "minimally invasive education."
He discusses the experiments that he has conducted and asserts that those experiments have demonstrated that:
'Even in the absence of any direct input from a teacher, an environment that stimulates curiosity can cause learning through self-instruction and peer-shared knowledge.'
This and other of his conclusions seem, to me, to be conclusions that Ernest Morrell, Ross Kochman and other adherents of PAR would second. That is, his research seems to lend further credence to the arguments that adherents of PAR have made.
In the TED talk posted above, the speaker makes conclusions about education that are relevant to our present discussion of Participatory Action Research (PAR)
ReplyDeleteThe author of the talk is Sugata Mitra. Mitra, who's now a professor of educational technology at Newcastle University (UK), talks about child-driven education, or what he calls "minimally invasive education."
He discusses the experiments that he has conducted and asserts that those experiments have demonstrated that:
'Even in the absence of any direct input from a teacher, an environment that stimulates curiosity can cause learning through self-instruction and peer-shared knowledge.'
This and other of his conclusions seem, to me, to be conclusions that Ernest Morrell, Ross Kochman and other adherents of PAR would second. That is, his research seems to lend further credence to the arguments that adherents of PAR have made.