It started with a hole in the wall. Sugata Mitra, working for a software company in Delhi, cut a gap between his firm and the slum next door, putting out an Internet-connected computer for kids in the ...
Editor’s Note: In 1999, Sugata Mitra, a software engineer in New Delhi, India, was worried about information poverty. So he cut a hole in a wall, inserted a computer into it, and watched as kids from ...
Imagine a school without walls, textbooks or teachers, where children are inspired to learn by their own sense of wonder. That’s what Sugata Mitra dreamt when he first placed a computer into a hole in ...
BLACK MOUNTAIN, On October 25th ­ October 27th, Black Mountain SOLE, the world’s first “self­organized learning environment” (SOLE) for higher education and beyond, is hosting an unconference to start ...
Researchers have demonstrated that self-organization of neurons as they 'learn' follows a mathematical theory called the free energy principle. The principle accurately predicted how real neural ...
KNOWLEDGE IS OBSOLETE: Sugata Mitra, the researcher best known for his “hole in the wall” experiment, is bringing his radical instructional approach in US Schools. His secret: let kids teach ...