Sugata Mitras Self-Organized Learning Environments, or SOLEs — places that aren’t necessarily schools, but where children learn through self-instruction and peer-shared knowledge. To facilitate this learning process, what students need aren’t teachers, but motivators. “We decided to use grandmothers as models. A granny admires her grandchild’s smallest achievement and encourages rather than teaches,” says Mitra. So, he created an expandable ‘Granny Cloud’ of voluntary mentors (not necessarily grandmothers) who are available on Skype from remote locations and who guide students’ explorations of the Internet. “This way, learning is minimally invasive, yet it is focused,” he says. This also gives his model a great deal of flexibility — it can replace, or at the very least, complement conventional learning paradigms.
Posted on: Sat, 30 Aug 2014 08:39:23 +0000
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