Kids Teaching Themselves (Credit: Google images)
Can kids teach themselves? Kids can teach themselves, can’t they?
In a self-organising way, using their own creativity, ingenuity, intelligence, and innovativeness.
Noticing patterns, noticing how things work: Can kids teach themselves?
Kids – teaching themselves.
What kind of learning is that?
Who can use it?
There’s a guy who is an expert on these kinds of questions.
His name is Sugata Mitra. I think he’s the best one to tell the story of self-organising systems in education.
You and I would say the kids are teaching themselves. And somehow, I think the story is bigger than that…
By the way, I’m a teacher of English. Let me quote something the kids said to Sugata Mitra:
“You’ve given us a computer that works only in English. So we’ve taught ourselves English in order to use it.” (End of quote)
Interesting. Very interesting…
Enjoy the video…
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