lunes, 18 de octubre de 2010

Lets going to be "autodidactas"

This news is about how a project has helped some childrens, beyond any interracial or economic differences, to learn alone, without a teachers or guides supervision.
Mostly, in remotes areas, the quality of the education is traced by the attitude and the quality of the teachers. But there are, and always will be, places where good teachers dont want to go. So, this is where computers and the technology come in.
Laptops, powerpoint, and LCD projectors were invented in a first place for corporate boardrooms and rich companys. Then the teachers borrowed this technology, what was one time judged to be over-hyped and under-performing....but maybe because it was being used in the wrong places.
So this experiment, that the media called the "hole-in-the-wall" project, was about taking this computers that were designed to be used by 6- to 15-year-old children, free of charge and free of any supervision, and brought it to some of the remotest locations in India, Cambodia and Africa.
In the first five years of the experiment, the results showed that groups of children can teach themselves to use a computer and the internet, irrespective of who or where they are; what language they speak and of whether they go to school or not. Ten years later, a girl in rural Maharashtra is studying aeronautical engineering and a village boy became a genetic engineer following their encounters with the computers in “the wall”.
So, groups of children, given the appropriate digital infrastructure, a safe and free environment, and a friendly but not knowledgeable mediator, can pass school-leaving exams on their own. Teachers need to be trained to design simple questions that will evoke curiosity and interest while their gently nudging a group into the curriculum. Then, they can sit back and admire how learning happens.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2010/oct/18/sugata-mitra-slumdog-teach-self

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