Are we giving children too much structure when attempting to educate them? Would children improve their ability to think if we gave them a few tools and let them self-organize with minimal adult supervision? Many schools let students use computers individually - are they potentially doing it wrong? Is it possible that children could meet most of the objectives of a primary education in a self-organized learning environment?
FTA: "A 10-year experiment that started with Indian slum children being given access to computers has produced a new concept for education... "I think we have stumbled across a self-organising system with learning as an emergent behaviour... At the end of it we concluded that groups of children can lean to use computers on their own irrespective of who or where they are... No child would play with it inside the classroom. If you leave it on the pavement and all the adults go away then they will show off to one another about what they can do... It doesn't work if you give them each a computer individually... We could change everything."
Using computers to teach children with no teachers
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Original posting by Braincrave Second Life staff on Jul 18, 2010 at http://www.braincrave.com/viewblog.php?id=265
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