“When you’ve got interest, then you have education.” ”
Sugata Mitra, Professor of Educational Technology at the University of Newcastle and originator of the Hole in the Wall project, walks us through the program's history.
"The whole point of the
Hole in the Wall project was to encourage children to think beyond monetary
gain and want to change the world, not simply become rich," Mitra told the Telegraph a few years ago.
In this TED talk, Mitra shares wonderful anecdotes about children and the discovery process and introduces the concept of his Self Organized Learning Environments (SOLEs), designed to provide "a healthy mixture of competition and collaboration."
Technology, global community, independent thinking, and creative problem-solving? Sounds like the kind of hands-on education this generation needs.