California: Sugata Mitra on Tuesday was awarded a million-dollar TED Prize to pursue the promise of building schools in the Internet cloud where young minds can learn unfettered by grown-ups.
Mitra's journey to the prestigious TED gathering in the Southern California city of Long Beach began more than a decade ago in Delhi, when he stuck a computer in a hole in a slum wall to see what the children would do. (Read: The Sole of a student: TED winner Sugata Mitra's blog)
In the video below he talks about his experiment that was reproduced in an array of countries and communities.
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Mitra's journey to the prestigious TED gathering in the Southern California city of Long Beach began more than a decade ago in Delhi, when he stuck a computer in a hole in a slum wall to see what the children would do. (Read: The Sole of a student: TED winner Sugata Mitra's blog)
In the video below he talks about his experiment that was reproduced in an array of countries and communities.
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