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The Child-Driven Education

I found this video very intriguing.  Sugata Mitra notes a problem in education, there are areas of the world where schools cannot be built and the best teachers will not go.  I was blown away by Mitra's method of bringing knowledge to the children in these areas of the world.  His "Hole in the Wall" technique of placing computers with internet access in areas of New Delhi was an extremely creative idea.  The children began teaching themselves how to use the technology and began learning in English.  

The fact that the children were learning on their own, unsupervised, confirmed that all children are hungry to learn and can learn if given the opportunity.  He noted that in some instances the children began to research further on the subject matter he had given them.  It was neat that the children's English accent improved because it was the only way that the computer could understand what they were saying.  

Do you think that all children are this eager to learn?  Why are these specific groups of children eager to learn and taking responsibility for their education?

http://www.ted.com/talks/sugata_mitra_the_child_driven_education.html

Works Cited

Mitra, S. (2010, September). Child Driven Education. Retrieved from Technology Entertainment Design: http://www.ted.com/talks/sugata_mitra_the_child_driven_education.html

FED 6350 Blog 1

I feel that this class, Technology of Learning, will be very beneficial to my future teaching career and feeling more comfortable and confident in incorporating technology in my lessons to benefit my students.  Last class we read two articles, Tale of Two Cities and The Digital Divide.  I enjoyed our class discussion.  It was interesting to me to hear all the different view points my peers had on the effect of technology in the classroom and how it effects the studies who do not have access to technology outside of school.  One of the topics analyzed was whose responsibility was it to provide proper access to technology to complete homework assignments.  Some thought it was the teacher's and others thought it was the parents and students.

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