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Can kids teach themselves?

Started by Pat McCotter, September 05, 2008, 06:40 AM NHFT

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Pat McCotter

"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?

Rosie the Riveter

so cool!! Thanks for posting that Pat!

Pat McCotter

You're welcome, Rosie!

FORA TV has something a little different from what I posted before.
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" from Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2005.

And here is a Business Week interview with Sugata Mitra in March 2000.