Sugata Mitra, an Indian innovator in the education
field, has been awarded the $1 million TED Prize for his bold idea in
making computer-based education more accessible to children. Mitra, an education technology professor at
Newcastle University in the United Kingdom, said he will use the prize, awarded by
TED, an annual global ideas conference, to launch a global initiative for self-directed learning that builds on his discovery.
TED called Mitra’s "Hole In The Wall" project an “
innovative and bold efforts towards advancing learning for children".
Mitra and his colleagues on this project dug a hole in a wall near a
Delhi slum in 1999. The team then installed a web-enabled computer and
left it there. The project’s aim was to show that children can learn
almost anything without the need for a classroom environment or a mentor
or teacher.
"My wish is to help design the future of learning by supporting
children all over the world to tap into their innate sense of wonder and
work together," he said in his acceptance speech Tuesday at the TED
2013 conference in Long Beach, California.
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