Future of Learning and Thought Leadership Series
Presents
The Emerging Future of Learning
by
Sugata Mitra
Professor Emeritus, NIIT University, India
Sugata Mitra is Professor Emeritus at NIIT University, Rajasthan, India. A recipient of the million-dollar TEL Prize in 2013, Prof. Mitra holds a Ph.D. in theoretical physics and superannuated in 2019 as Professor of Educational Technology at Newcastle University in England. He also served the MIT MediaLab in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA for a year in 2012 as Visiting Professor.
His works on children’s education include 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 latest book School in the Cloud covering the science and the story of the future of learning was published by CORWIN in 2019.
Date:
29 September 2020
Time:
7:00 - 8:00 PDT
(Pacific Daylight Time)
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About the webinar:
More than 40% of the people in the world have access to the Internet. Going by growth rates, in less than 10 years, just about everyone will have access. In this talk Sugata Mitra will take us through 20 years of experience with how children and the Internet interact. What influences does the Internet have on children and learning? Under what conditions are these influences optimal for learning? How have these influences changed over time? What is to come?
From travels around the world for 20 years, Sugata describes the changes that schools need to make to become meaningful in a world where what we need to know is no longer evident. From the World Bank funded ‘Hole in the Wall’ project to the million-dollar TED prize funded ‘School in the Cloud’ project, Sugata describes his experiments with children, collaboration and the Internet. Through experiments carried out in India, the UK, Australia, Latin America and the USA, we glimpse the new literacies that are shaping and changing the nature of learning itself.
‘On the Internet, we know before we learn’, Sugata quotes from a 12-year-old in London. A sentence that forecasts ‘the end of knowing’, as he puts it.