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Sugata Mitra conceptualized and implemented the revolutionary Hole in the Wall experiment, where, in the year 1999 a computer was embedded within a wall in an Indian slum at Kalkaji, Delhi and children were allowed to freely use it. The experiment aimed at proving that kids could be taught computers very easily without any formal training. Sugata termed this as Minimally Invasive Education. The experiment has since been repeated at many places around the world. From the slums of India, to the villages of India and Cambodia, to poor schools in Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, the USA and Italy, to the schools of Gateshead and the rich international schools of Washington and Hong Kong, his experimental results show a strange new future for learning.
In this special lecture, Sugata Mitra will take us through the origins of schooling as we know it, to the dematerialisation of institutions as we know them. Based on experiments in children’s education spanning thirteen years, evidence will be presented to show that children can self organise their own learning, achieve educational objectives on their own, read by themselves and that groups of children with access to the Internet can learn anything by themselves.
Sugata Mitra’s interests include Children’s Education, Remote Presence, Self-organising systems, Cognitive Systems, Physics and Consciousness. For his contributions to the field of education and cognitive learning, he has received wide-spread acclaim including the one million dollar TED Prize and the Dewang Mehta Award for innovation in information technology.
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