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The School in the Cloud

The Emerging Future of Learning
By: Sugata Mitra

Foreword by John Hattie
Foreword by Class 3G, Belleville Primary School

Discover the results of Sugata Mitra’s latest research around self-organized learning environments (SOLE) and building "Schools in the Cloud" all over the world.

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  • Grade Level: PreK-12
  • ISBN: 9781506389172
  • Published By: Corwin
  • Series: Corwin Teaching Essentials
  • Year: 2019
  • Page Count: 224
  • Publication date: August 28, 2019

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The Science and the Story of the Future of Learning
Educators have been trying to harness the “promise” of technology in education for decades, to no avail, but we have learned that children in groups—when given access to the Internet—can learn anything by themselves. In this groundbreaking book, you’ll glimpse the emerging future of learning with technology. It turns out the promise isn’t in the technology itself; it’s in the self-directed learning of the children who use it.

In 1999, Sugata Mitra conducted the famous "Hole in the Wall" experiment that inspired three TED Talks and earned him the first million-dollar TED prize for research in 2013. Since then, he has conducted new research around self-organized learning environments (SOLE), building "Schools in the Cloud" all over the world. This new book shares the results of this research and offers
• Examples of thriving Schools in the Cloud in unlikely places
• Mitra’s predictions on the future of learning
• How to design assessments for self-organizing learning
• How to build your own School in the Cloud
• Clips from the documentary, The School in the Cloud

Discover the future of learning by digging deep into Mitra’s thought-provoking experiences, examples, and vision.


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The book will share:
  • Examples of thriving Schools in the Cloud in unlikely places
  • Mitra's predictions on the Future of Learning
  • How to design assessments for self-organized learning
  • How to build your own School in the Cloud
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Sugata Mitra

Professor Sugata Mitra’s cur­rent work is on the internet and children’s learning. He retired in 2019 as Professor of Educational Technology, Newcastle University.

He conducted the Hole-in-the-Wall (HIW) experiment in 1999, embedding a computer within a wall in an Indian slum at Kalkaji, Delhi; children were allowed to use this computer freely. The experiment aimed at proving that kids could be taught computers very easily without any formal training. Mitra termed this minimally invasive education (MIE). The experiment has since been repeated at many places. He is the recipient of many awards and honorary doctorates from India, the United Kingdom, the United States, and many other countries in the world.

His interests include children’s education, remote presence, self-organizing sys­tems, cognitive systems, complex dynamical systems, physics, and consciousness.

The Hole-in-the-Wall experiment has left a mark on popular culture. Indian diplomat Vikas Swarup read about Mitra’s experiment and was inspired to write his debut novel that went on to become the Oscar-winning movie of 2009—Slumdog Millionaire.

Mitra holds a PhD in physics and is credited with more that 25 inven­tions in the area of cognitive science and educational technology. He was conferred the prestigious Dewang Mehta Award for Innovation in Information Technology from the Government of India in the year 2003. Amongst many other awards, he received the first ever million-dollar TED Prize in 2013.

Recently, he used the money he was awarded when he received the TED Prize to put his educational ideas together to create seven laboratories called “Schools in the Cloud.” Here he studied learning as emergent phenomena in an educational self-organizing system. These results question the ideas of curriculum and exami­nations, as well as the meaning of “knowing” itself, in the internet world of the twenty-first century.

The effects of Sugata Mitra’s work on the lives of people and the economies of the countries in which his “Schools in the Cloud” have existed can only be guessed at.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

List of Figures


List of Companion Website Resources


Foreword John Hattie, Class 3G, Belleville Primary School


Acknowledgments


About the Author


Prelude: A Matter of Imagination


The School in the Cloud: A Chronology


PART I: WHAT HAPPENS WHEN CHILDREN MEET THE INTERNET?


Chapter 1: Self-Organizing Systems in Learning

1999—The Hole in the Wall

Can Children Learn With Technology?

2007—The Gateshead Experiments

2009—The Granny Cloud

Admiration as Pedagogy: The Kalikuppam Experiment

Skype Grannies

The Hyderabad Project, 2007–2009

The Atlas Learning Centre (ALC) in Gosavi Vasti, India, 2012

2010—When the Rubber Hits the Road: Implementation Around the World

Chapter 2: Schools in the Cloud

TED: An Idea (I Hope Was) Worth Spreading

The Schools in the Cloud

PART II: SCHOOLS IN THE CLOUD


Chapter 3: Area Zero: Gocharan, the Baruipur Municipality, Bengal, India

Learning and Some Huge Challenges

Results

Chapter 4: Area 1: Korakati, the Sundarbans, Bengal, India

Results

Chapter 5: Area 2: Chandrakona, West Midnapore, Bengal, India

Learning and Some Challenges

Chapter 6: Area 3: Kalkaji, New Delhi, India

The Early SOLE at GGSSS/GBSSS

Learning

Results

Chapter 7: Area 4: Phaltan, District Satara, Maharashtra, India

Making Sense of the Data From Phaltan

What the Phaltan Data Said

Chapter 8: Area 5: Killingworth, North Tyneside, England

Chapter 9: Area 6: Newton Aycliffe, County Durham, England

Chapter 10: How to Build Your Own School in the Cloud

Why Would You Want to Build a School in the Cloud?

Will the Internet Ever be Allowed During Examinations?

Space

Furniture

Computing Equipment

Power, Internet, and Climate Control

The Dasghara Model

Using the School in the Cloud

Creating and Posing Big Questions

When SOLEs Go Wrong

PART III: GLIMPSES OF THE FUTURE OF LEARNING


Chapter 11: What Did We Learn From the Schools in the Cloud?

How Much Can We Rely on the Research?

What Did We Learn From the Schools in the Cloud?

Chapter 12: Is No Pedagogy Good Pedagogy? Minimally Invasive Education

Education

Education and Cognition

Using the Past

Assessment

A Different Type of Exam

Curriculum

Chapter 13: Where Are the Schools in the Cloud Now?

An Uncertain Future

What Is Happening With the Schools in the Cloud?

Schools in the Cloud Spreading Around the World

Chapter 14: Projection, Prediction, Prophecy, and Phantasy

Looking for the Future

Projection

Prediction

Prophecy

Phantasy

Spontaneous Order

Epilogue


Documentary Discussion Guide


References


Index


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