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New Hampshire Underground => Voluntary Schooling => Topic started by: Pat McCotter on September 05, 2008, 06:40 AM NHFT

Title: Can kids teach themselves?
Post by: Pat McCotter on September 05, 2008, 06:40 AM NHFT
"If we wanted to we could easily and inexpensively jettison the old, stupid structures and help kids take an education rather than merely receive a schooling." - John Taylor Gatto, Harper's - Sept 2003


Can kids teach themselves? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRb7_ffl2D0)
Title: Re: Can kids teach themselves?
Post by: Rosie the Riveter on September 06, 2008, 01:27 PM NHFT
so cool!! Thanks for posting that Pat!
Title: Re: Can kids teach themselves?
Post by: Pat McCotter on September 07, 2008, 06:52 AM NHFT
You're welcome, Rosie!

FORA TV has something a little different from what I posted before.
Minimally Invasive Education through Social Play (http://fora.tv/2007/09/27/Minimally_Invasive_Education_through_Social_Play)

Here is the research paper titled Acquisition of computing literacy on shared public computers: Children and the "hole in the wall" (http://www.ascilite.org.au/ajet/ajet21/mitra.html) from Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2005.

And here is a Business Week interview (http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/mar2000/nf00302b.htm) with Sugata Mitra in March 2000.