https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk60sYrU2RU
A talk by Sugata Mitra about web 2.0.
Sugata Mitra was the teacher of English in Spain. He was mostly interested in technology and teaching English language.He introduced tools to use Web 2.0 and for that he shared few examples engaging technology. 21st century language learners can use this tools.SECOND LIFE possessing educational possibilities which is known as Web 3.0.
These are places on earth,in every country, where, for various reasons,good schools cannot be built and good teachers cannot or do not want to go. Good teachers are not willing to where they are most needed. He started in 1999 to travel and address this problem which was done in New Delhi. He does the experiment on children living in slum called ‘THE HOLE IN THE WALL’. He embalmed computers with high speed internet and left it for the children. Children used that computers and enjoyed the stuff and by this they taught themselves many things related to computers and internet. During this he found three interesting things about children’s learning i.e
Sugata Mitra was the teacher of English in Spain. He was mostly interested in technology and teaching English language.He introduced tools to use Web 2.0 and for that he shared few examples engaging technology. 21st century language learners can use this tools.SECOND LIFE possessing educational possibilities which is known as Web 3.0.
These are places on earth,in every country, where, for various reasons,good schools cannot be built and good teachers cannot or do not want to go. Good teachers are not willing to where they are most needed. He started in 1999 to travel and address this problem which was done in New Delhi. He does the experiment on children living in slum called ‘THE HOLE IN THE WALL’. He embalmed computers with high speed internet and left it for the children. Children used that computers and enjoyed the stuff and by this they taught themselves many things related to computers and internet. During this he found three interesting things about children’s learning i.e
a)
Willingness
b)
Joy
c)
Excitement.
Than he become more ambitious and decided to find out what
students can do more with the computers and he started Hyderabad Experiment
in 2002. He gave the work to
students with Telugu accent. He suggested them to use that and teach themselves
and after some time he found that their accents are close to neutral British
accents and this is documented in ‘Information and Technology for
International development journal’. He met late Arther C. Clerk and he
spoke two interesting things which are
a) Teachers that can be replaced by machines,
should be
b)
If children have interest than education
happens.
In Africa he found a boy who can access the internet very
nicely and do all the things in computer. In rural Combodia he found children
playing arithmetic game in computer which most of students ignore to do in
note-book.
During this time around 2006, a large amount of money
offered him by The New Castle University to improve schooling in India. He made
himself to do an impossible task, Can Tamil speaking 12 year old children
in a South Indian village teach themselves in English their own? To do
that he gave a computer and then provide material to do the task but the result
was nothing. By that he found he needed teachers to do certain things. This
time the result reached to 30% but this is not passing result so the
improvement is still needed. For that he asked an account teacher to teach them.
He was assigned to admire them all the time during their task which is known as
method of grandmother and found that result reached to 50% which is the result
of high profile teachers in their schooling in New Delhi.
After four years he did one more experiment in Gateshead in
2009. He used tuna method, made group of four and told them to use one computer
which he has already experimented while doing experiment in Hyderabad. He told
that they could make the group of their own choice, they can change the group,
see others work and come back to original group and claim their own work. With
the help of peers and web tools they solved all the things the best group in 20
minutes and the worst in 45 minutes. To check the importance of this, after two
months he took another paper test of same questions and found the results
remained the same. He claimed that it
was photographic image which made it possible because when the session is over,
children continued to Google further.
At last in video he gave the information of his new
experiment known as SOLEs (Self Organized Learning Environments) and the
structure of it which is in New Castle University. In that we found big
powerful screen and having internet broadband connection but in group and call GRANY
CLOUD who was the mediator in Pune.
Further he talked about one of his experiments
in Turin, Italy in May 2010. He took the ten year old students and no
teachers. He spoke in English and students in Italy so there was no way to
communication. Than he wrote some questions in English on blackboard. Students typed them on Google translator and
found the answers form Italian Google.
Self-organized system is one where the system structure
appears without explicit intervention from outside the system. At last he made
a guess: Education is a self-organized system where learning is an emergent
phenomenon. To accomplish this he needs 1 Billion children, 100 Millions
mediators, 10 Million SOLEs, 180 Billion Dollars and 10 years and he can easily
fulfill his wish to do this.
