Complexity Digest 2010.19 - 05

2010/09/10

Editor-in-Chief: Carlos Gershenson
Founding Editor: Gottfried Mayer

Sugata Mitra: The child-driven education, TED.com Bookmark and Share

About this talk: Education scientist Sugata Mitra tackles one of the greatest problems of education -- the best teachers and schools don't exist where they're needed most. In a series of real-life experiments from New Delhi to South Africa to Italy, he gave kids self-supervised access to the web and saw results that could revolutionize how we think about teaching.