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From the Hole in the Wall to Yale: A Q&A with Arun Chavan
Sugata Mitra carved a hole in a wall in a New Delhi slum—about 3 feet high—and placed a computer in it. When kids asked what it was, he said, “I don’t know,” and walked away. Photo: courtesy of Sugata...
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Filmmaker to make documentary about TED Prize winner Sugata Mitra
British director Jerry Rothwell has received the first annual Sundance Institute | TED Prize Filmmaker Award, and with it $125K to make a documentary about Sugata Mitra. Photo: Courtesy of Mitra Sugata...
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How do you film a School in the Cloud? Q&A with documentarian Jerry Rothwell
By Courtney E. Martin What do sperm donation, marathon runners, disabled rockstars, and yacht racing have in common? They’ve all been subjects of the careful eye and artistic vision of British...
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TED News in Brief: Wired profiles Sugata Mitra, while Andrew Bird plays a...
Peter Yang photographs 12-year-old Paloma Noyola Bueno for <em>Wired</em>’s profile about how her life was impacted by TED Prize winner Sugata Mitra. Over the past week, we’ve noticed a lot...
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CNN names its top 10 thinkers of 2013, and 7 of them have given TED Talks
How do you pick the 10 thinkers in the world whose ideas are making the biggest ripples? It’s a task sort of akin to asking: which are the 10 most beautiful flowers in a meadow? Luckily, we don’t have...
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Daring kids to ask big questions: 3 teachers who entered our SOLE Challenge...
Sugata Mitra realized that a group of kids, left alone with a computer, can teach themselves an incredible amount of information. His theories are inspiring teachers in classrooms around the globe....
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The first School in the Cloud opens in the UK
A group of students explores a question at the Killingworth School in the Cloud, as a volunteer member of the “Granny Cloud” gives them guidance from the screen. By Sarah Schoengold Sugata Mitra has...
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A School in the Cloud among the mangrove trees: Sugata Mitra opens his first...
Students at the School in the Cloud in Korakati, India, investigate the questions that matter to them online, with the assistance of a teacher via the Granny Cloud. “Early one morning last February, a...
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Sugata Mitra TED Prize update: Preview the School in the Cloud documentary —...
By Natasha Scripture Sugata Mitra thinks big. At last year’s TED, he unveiled his dream to transform primary education. Instead of a teacher, a chalkboard and a generic curriculum, the recipient of...
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A year into his School in the Cloud documentary, Jerry Rothwell shares the...
Filmmaker Jerry Rothwell films a family in Korakati, India. He is making a documentary that tells the story of the School in the Cloud. Photo: Courtesy of Jerry Rothwell British director Jerry...
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What happens when 5th graders run the classroom: A SOLE in action
Two students in Mr. J’s class laugh as they teach themselves about Mercy Otis Warren and the American Revolution. Photo: Natasha Scripture Eleven-year-olds running a classroom? That could sound...
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Two educators, two very different visions, one question: How can tech help us...
Take two education activists with very different theories — and give them a chance to work together on a goal they both care about. That’s the thinking in the video above, the kick-off of Microsoft’s...
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What can the American and British education systems learn from classrooms in...
Students in Phaltan, India, research the answer to a big question at one of Sugata Mitra’s School in the Cloud labs. According to Mitra and his Microsoft Work Wonders Project partner, Adam Braun,...
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Musings of a male granny: This retired schoolteacher spends his free time...
Kids at a school in India gather around a computer as David Swancott leads a School in the Cloud session. David Swancott is a retired biology teacher who lives an hour southeast of Bordeaux, France. He...
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What would you like to learn today? Building a center for research into...
Students at a School in the Cloud lab in India investigate a big question on their own in a SOLE. At the newly-opened SOLE Central at Newcastle University, research will be conducted on this type of...
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Doors open at Area Zero, the flagship School in the Cloud lab in India
This building is known as Area Zero. Located in West Bengal, India, it is the final — and flagship — lab of Sugata Mitra’s School in the Cloud. You’ve probably heard of Area 51. But how about Area...
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The first School in the Cloud learning lab in the United States opens in Harlem
At SOLE NYC, the first School in the Cloud learning lab in the US, students work in groups to answer fun, open-ended questions. On Wednesday morning, students researched: why do dogs chase cats? The...
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What learning at the edge of chaos looks like
Normally, “Skype Granny” Lesley Keast lives in Spain and appears as a giant face on a screen in the School in the Cloud learning lab in Gocharan, India. But in the days before the first-ever School in...
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Self-organized learners around the world team up to raise money
SOLE Colombia teaches digital literacy to kids in rural communities across the country, giving them big questions to research in groups. Photo: Courtesy of SOLE Colombia In Kingston, Jamaica, 4- to...
View ArticleThe School in the Cloud, a documentary on Sugata Mitra’s TED Prize wish,...
. At the School in the Cloud learning lab in the village of Korakati, India, students sit on colorful stools in front of computer screens, talking over Skype to educators in England and Germany. So it...
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