This is a good summary of my objections in a very different form from what I stated below.
I would even go further: I highly doubt the top 20% are all able to learn by themselves with a library and a computer (and almost everyone would at least need directions on what to study). And the bottom 20% is more like the bottom 50%.
Why would a kid need a direction on what to study? With access to modern technology, all she needs is just to look around and make choices? Did you hear of Hole in the Wall experiments. Bottom 20% may refer to socioeconomic conditions, but for kids with access to the web that concept starts volatilizing and a poor kid may outstrip the privileged one. The idea of “needing direction” is born at school when kids are lead by hand for many years and never learn how to navigate life on their own. That directionless free choice is their best lesson
Google for Sugata Mitra, and do not be swayed by the “school lobby” that found lots of (petty) holes in the Hole. Basic idea behind Mitra reasoning is correct as evidence by decades of experience of democratic school. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimally_invasive_education
1 Children can self-organize in groups with no adult intervention.
2 Children teach themselves in small groups how to use a computer with basic Windows functionalities and English language.
Takeaway message:
Remoteness affects the quality of education.
Educational technology should be introduced into remote areas first.
Values are acquired, doctrine and dogma are imposed.
Learning is (most likely) a self-organizing system.
coined term: Outdoctrination: An educational technology and pedagogy that is digital, automatic, fault-tolerant, minimally invasive, connected, and self-organized.
This is a good summary of my objections in a very different form from what I stated below.
I would even go further: I highly doubt the top 20% are all able to learn by themselves with a library and a computer (and almost everyone would at least need directions on what to study). And the bottom 20% is more like the bottom 50%.
Why would a kid need a direction on what to study? With access to modern technology, all she needs is just to look around and make choices? Did you hear of Hole in the Wall experiments. Bottom 20% may refer to socioeconomic conditions, but for kids with access to the web that concept starts volatilizing and a poor kid may outstrip the privileged one. The idea of “needing direction” is born at school when kids are lead by hand for many years and never learn how to navigate life on their own. That directionless free choice is their best lesson
No. Any links/sources you have for these things would be interesting.
Google for Sugata Mitra, and do not be swayed by the “school lobby” that found lots of (petty) holes in the Hole. Basic idea behind Mitra reasoning is correct as evidence by decades of experience of democratic school. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimally_invasive_education
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRb7_ffl2D0
is a ted talk from Sugata Mitra about it
Basically, Mitra installed a computer in a wall with free, unrestrained access to local children.
Fairly quickly they got acclimated to it. I know I read a good description of it somewhere but can’t remember where for the life of me
I just watched the video. Here is an outline.
1 Children can self-organize in groups with no adult intervention.
2 Children teach themselves in small groups how to use a computer with basic Windows functionalities and English language.
Takeaway message:
Remoteness affects the quality of education.
Educational technology should be introduced into remote areas first.
Values are acquired, doctrine and dogma are imposed.
Learning is (most likely) a self-organizing system.
coined term: Outdoctrination:
An educational technology and pedagogy that is digital, automatic, fault-tolerant, minimally invasive, connected, and self-organized.