Saturday, 9 February 2013

Using computers to teach children with no teachers

A 10-year experiment that started with Indian slum children being given access to computers has produced a new concept for education, a conference has heard.

 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-10663353

Read the article above - we just need to be the 'granny cloud'! Very inspiring, we have to get out of the way, so kids can learn.

Jill: Actually I found the outcome from this experiment very useful. It's called SOLE or Self Organised Learning Environment. And there are now quite a lot of applications of this that we can learn from. You can see an English one in Dec 2012 for instance here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiGbfhnvT4Q

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  1. Jill Friar10 February 2013 at 03:57

    Actually I found the outcome from this experiment very useful. It's called SOLE or Self Organised Learning Environment. And there are now quite a lot of applications of this that we can learn from. You can see an English one in Dec 2012 for instance here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiGbfhnvT4Q

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