Sugata Mitra
Sugata Mitra
Sugata Mitrais Professor of Educational Technology at the School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences at Newcastle University, England. He is best known for his "Hole in the Wall" experiment, and widely cited in works on literacy and education. He is Chief Scientist, Emeritus, at the for-profit training company NIIT. He won the TED Prize 2013...
NationalityIndian
ProfessionEducator
Date of Birth12 February 1952
CountryIndia
children technology office
In nine months, a group of children left alone with a computer in any language will reach the same standard as an office secretary in the West.
answers bigs asks
Ask BIG questions, find BIG answers.
design wish want
My wish is that we design the future of learning. We don't want to be spare parts for a great human computer.
imagination memorization students
Students are rewarded for memorization, not imagination or resourcefulness.
kids use pace
I'm encouraging kids to use computers at their own pace to build aspirations.
years needs information
Who knows what we’ll need to learn thirty years from now? We do know that we will need to be good at searching for information, collating it, and figuring out whether it is right or wrong.
self phenomenon
Education is a self-organizing system, where learning is an emergent phenomenon.
children interest ifs
If children have interest, then Education happens
lines wells bottom
The bottom line is, if you're not the one controlling your learning, you're not going to learn as well.
teacher machines should
A teacher that can be replaced by a machine should be.
teacher jobs giving
You don't actually need to know anything, you can find out at the point when you need to know it. It's the teachers job to point young minds towards the right kind of question, a teacher doesn't need to give any answers because answers are everywhere.
broken needs outdated
It's quite fashionable to say that the education system's broken — it's not broken, it's wonderfully constructed. It's just that we don't need it anymore. It's outdated.
educational self organization
We need to look at learning as the product of educational self-organization. It’s not about making learning happen; it’s about letting it happen.
skills imagination asking
Learning is the new skill. Imagination, creation and asking new questions are at its core.