TEXTO:
Heads in the cloud
It all started with the wall. In 1999 education
researcher Sugata Mitra and his colleagues thought it
would be interesting to install a computer in a wall
bordering an urban slum in New Delhi to see what the
[5] kids there might make of it. The results were stunning.
With no supervision, the children taught themselves how
to use the computer, including picking up English to look
for answers to all sorts of questions. Subsequent similar
experiments led Mitra to conclude that the most creative
[10] and productive education comes when children aren’t
threatened but inspired – especially by their peers. The
traditional approach was created by the British to train
the subjects of the empire, and, he argues, the system
continues to produce “identical people for a machine that
[15] no longer ∃.” Instead, what he calls a self-organized
learning environment is all about getting kids excited
about what they can know. In a proposal that won Mitra
the TED award this year, he suggests creating an
enormous self-organized school in the cloud, where, with
[20] a little guidance but minimal interference from
“grandmothers,” kids can explore the universe at will to
answer their own questions and those that are put to them.
DICKEY, Christopher. Heads in the cloud. In: Big Think, Around the worldin six ideas. Newsweek, Mar 25, 2013. p. 8.
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