New experiments in self-teaching | Sugata Mitra

www.ted.com Indian education scientist Sugata Mitra tackles one of the greatest problems of education -- the best teachers and schools don't exist where they're needed most. In a series of real-life experiments from New Delhi to South Africa to Italy, he gave kids self-supervised access to the web and saw results that could revolutionize how we think about teaching.
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  • @slytoffcntr
    @slytoffcntr11 жыл бұрын

    Sometimes I forget that there are good people out there, making life better. This is very inspiring and heart-warming to me.

  • @mailbox5ravi
    @mailbox5ravi8 жыл бұрын

    @4:27 If children have interest, education happens (Automatically) ! @9:31 (Teaching) Method of Grandmother : Stand Behind them and admire them all the time. !

  • @apriljohnfranciscollorito5189
    @apriljohnfranciscollorito51892 жыл бұрын

    I am novice a teacher.and I am lucky enough to stumble upon this amazing tedtalk.

  • @joemiyaki4074
    @joemiyaki40748 жыл бұрын

    Wow, this sent shivers down my spine. This could impact the future in a big way. Mr. Sugata Mitra, I wish you all the best and may be interviewing you in the future.

  • @balikakamble1433
    @balikakamble14338 жыл бұрын

    you are doing great job sir. yes this is part of attitude not technology.thank you so much sir.

  • @raiselearning
    @raiselearning13 жыл бұрын

    I am awestruck by Sugata's developing ideas...I love the idea of that the Internet & access to computers can level the playing field and provide the disadvantaged access to a world of learning opportunities. His ideas of collaboration, 'teaching to learn' and leveraging child interest is inspirational. I am an early childhood teacher and I truly feel that sometimes 'adults' can actually interfere with learning, particularly if learning is not interesting to them...amazing!

  • @ajchapter13
    @ajchapter138 жыл бұрын

    Simply Beautiful and powerful and very insightful ! Great talk Mr Sugata Mitra.

  • @tracydavis7819
    @tracydavis78194 жыл бұрын

    This study is extremely thought provoking. It is amazing how the children learned so much material on their own. Children teaching children how to use computers. They learned new languages and much more information by using computers on their own. The experiment worked in ghettos of India, Cambodia and everywhere it was instituted.

  • @crudhousefull
    @crudhousefull12 жыл бұрын

    I appreciate the person who invented the web everyday. Also, thank you so much for the people who share their hard work so freely and the people who take the time to upload it onto the web. Google and KZread...you guys have revolutionized it again to another level. Thank you all so much.

  • @HimmiJoe
    @HimmiJoe13 жыл бұрын

    Kids absorb information so easily, a gift that is much missed by me. Self-learning I believe is one of the most powerful ways of learning, because you aren't being force-fed information but seeking to understand.

  • @Gerfitti
    @Gerfitti11 жыл бұрын

    As a home educator for 17 years, this makes PERFECT sense! I have watched how "iron sharpens iron" in my children and in my fellow home school families. A missing factor is the "older teaching the younger", much like the Granny Factor but incorporates older children encouraging younger. This, also, is a POWERFUL reinforcement tool. EXCELLENT TED talk!

  • @AltPeachStudy
    @AltPeachStudy7 жыл бұрын

    His Ted talks are so interesting he's funny and I ended up watching the whole video.

  • @alchemyst2000
    @alchemyst200011 жыл бұрын

    I clapped from home when this one ended. its just so brilliant. We are capable of learning, and even better together. this is also an awesome way to use technology to unite the human community, rather than estrange one another.

  • @sizwemhlungu1051
    @sizwemhlungu10518 жыл бұрын

    mr sugata you are a star especially when you help disadvantageous people this is powerfull we hope by the help of mmm many poor countries lives will change

  • @mydaf9644
    @mydaf96449 жыл бұрын

    Great to see such a maker! "Do or not do, there is no try" :) Many thanks

  • @otur1
    @otur113 жыл бұрын

    Stuff like this do give me hope in humanity. Thank you Sugata!

  • @erraticnz
    @erraticnz11 жыл бұрын

    This is really good to see as an educator, I now need to try and implement this sort of strategy into my programme.

  • @ShinkaTV
    @ShinkaTV13 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for making the world a better place Sugata.

  • @squirreljester2
    @squirreljester213 жыл бұрын

    Amazing, and one of the best TED talks I've seen so far.

  • @twisted_void
    @twisted_void11 жыл бұрын

    He is amazing. Blowing my mind. Many thanks to CPG Grey

  • @monaawadh
    @monaawadh11 жыл бұрын

    Mr. Mitra, this video helped me to restructure an entire proposal to teach patients...can't thank you enough...God bless you and have a fantastic journey;)

  • @akrulla
    @akrulla13 жыл бұрын

    This is amazing! I want in! Seriously the best TEDTalk I have ever seen. Thankyou.

  • @ratholin
    @ratholin13 жыл бұрын

    This is the second one of his videos I've seen and he amazes me more each time he goes for a talk. Wonderful lecture.

  • @lorrainecoleman
    @lorrainecoleman11 жыл бұрын

    probably the most important video on you tube.....thank you Sugata Mitra.

  • @uj256
    @uj25611 жыл бұрын

    This is so powerful. We have the capability now of allowing every child a shot in life towards whatever he wants as long as there is a good broadband connection and a screen.

  • @13thMarverick
    @13thMarverick11 жыл бұрын

    I cried, really, seeing how beautiful this is. The future is here, that our children will be come smarter than us, and mankind will be come smarter still, breaking boundary to the beyond. there is hope!

  • @srikanthchebrolu1091
    @srikanthchebrolu10913 жыл бұрын

    The above Mitra sir's talk is our Listening Exercise 🙂 in GMRIT

  • @AmarjitSinghDhaliwalDrDhali
    @AmarjitSinghDhaliwalDrDhali10 жыл бұрын

    I think the future of education is going to get interesting ! Amar / Dr Dhali.

  • @Nihilianth
    @Nihilianth10 жыл бұрын

    I was just reading an article about a Mexican teacher, in a really down-and-out, slumish barrio practically on the border of the Texas, in which he applied these same principles to one of his classes. He had no money, no materials, and no help, and his job was to teach these children. At the end of the year, the results were amazing.

  • @r123h

    @r123h

    3 жыл бұрын

    Surprisingly even I came to know about Dr. Sugata, from an article about that mexican teacher. And it was a revelation of sorts. have been a fan of him ever since.

  • @eatcarpet
    @eatcarpet12 жыл бұрын

    That has got to be the most amazing thing that I've ever saw!

  • @crionro
    @crionro13 жыл бұрын

    Simply amazing! Thank you!

  • @edwinlee5924
    @edwinlee592411 жыл бұрын

    I understood his point to be that self-motivated learning, rather than teacher directed learning, has the potential to bring most children into the modern world. There is information and there are teaching videos, both accurate and biased, on every subject you can name... available at pre-school, gradeschool, high school, college, graduate and post graduate levels. All we need to do is facilitate opportunities and support systems for children (and adults).

  • @nameofthepen
    @nameofthepen13 жыл бұрын

    This is possibly the most upbeat thing I've heard all year.

  • @SayChickpeas
    @SayChickpeas13 жыл бұрын

    I think he left out one key factor of the project's success. It puts the adventure back into learning. These kids are invested in a way that doesn't happen when a teacher assigns reading and problems, then a test. Rather than begrudgingly doing what is required of them they have a sense of the infinite. They explore and are delighted in their own discoveries. I love it.

  • @wojovox
    @wojovox12 жыл бұрын

    Sent shivers up my spine too.

  • @rahxephon52
    @rahxephon5213 жыл бұрын

    wow.. the human capacity and potential is insane!!

  • @liquidminds
    @liquidminds13 жыл бұрын

    Nice that Ted braught him back. After his last video 2yrs ago I was wondering how stuff would turn out.

  • @GilesGQI
    @GilesGQI12 жыл бұрын

    Fantastic vision....great stuff Mr. Mitra.

  • @flyingmojo5
    @flyingmojo513 жыл бұрын

    This video made me almost cry. I have been fuming for years over the institutionalized child abuse we call "scholastic education", which does little more than severely cripple children's innate curiosity and desire for learning, and instead seems to go out of its way to discourage free, independent thinking and inquiry. Sugata Mitra has given me tremendous hope that we can free ourselves of our present cruel and obsolete system of education

  • @vidmantasdd
    @vidmantasdd7 жыл бұрын

    Fantastic speech, thank you very much!!!

  • @reverenceforall
    @reverenceforall11 жыл бұрын

    Now this is brilliance at its peak!

  • @hollyh-zw1yb
    @hollyh-zw1yb6 жыл бұрын

    Not sure why, but this on brought me to tears, We must try this.

  • @ltericdavis2237
    @ltericdavis223711 жыл бұрын

    I always feel so much better about humanities future from watching TEDtalks

  • @Needkey.
    @Needkey.13 жыл бұрын

    This is awesome. give kids the initiative to learn and they don't need walls and schedules to tell them what to read and how to think.. a revolutionary idea.

  • @tammynguyen2919
    @tammynguyen291910 жыл бұрын

    This was so interesting that I listened to the whole video for the first time.

  • @BlackLacesXD
    @BlackLacesXD11 жыл бұрын

    When I saw the little Italians looking at right angles, I grinned and I cannot stop . Then I felt a tear. I cried in joy because children felt excited to LEARN GEOMETRY, something I have no knowledge about until I was 14. This is really something. Around me, my classmates digress learning, and I think it's because of the teaching methods. And look at them! Technology is affecting them very POSITIVELY. I can't contain my happiness, I can't. I really hope teaching will be revolutionised.

  • @eljordan4449
    @eljordan4449Ай бұрын

    Superb, inspirational, thank you, sharing with children and parents and teachers I know.

  • @nonhlanhladlamini2499
    @nonhlanhladlamini24998 жыл бұрын

    Powerful talk...

  • @charlesrosaly
    @charlesrosaly10 жыл бұрын

    Great natural way of learning. interest is the best motivator! This will be the way to get all of the countries to catch up on their own. If I could, I would pay for it!

  • @eurohim
    @eurohim11 жыл бұрын

    This is how I learn. I went through all those years of school and didn't know much, but then when I got out and I had my computer and my own interests, things really started to pick up. Even something and silly as posting comments on forums and youtube videos help me learn because I look up people's arguments and respond accordingly. With the computer, they can do what is most important, find the info yourself. Once you can do that, the sky is the limit.

  • @trai1b1azerx
    @trai1b1azerx13 жыл бұрын

    this is fantastic, can't thank you enough Prof. Mitra

  • @firetresses
    @firetresses11 жыл бұрын

    Wow that's amazing. That's awesome and definitely give me some hope to deal with my learning disability. The internet does seem to help a lot with that.

  • @preetivadgama86
    @preetivadgama8612 жыл бұрын

    Knowledge is power. This guy is a hero. He is teaching the poor and empowering the youth in these areas to help themselves. Genuis

  • @madmaxxmad2
    @madmaxxmad211 жыл бұрын

    This is the coolest thing I've seen in a long time. Thank you, thank you. I was so sick of politics, I'm glad you are here CPG.

  • @Muxoll-Rocks
    @Muxoll-Rocks13 жыл бұрын

    One more GREAT talk from TED.... Got 2 Love it :) Good luck proving it Sugata

  • @mingzhi9
    @mingzhi913 жыл бұрын

    this is insightful! thank you for what your have done and are going to do for our further

  • @busisiwecarneson3528
    @busisiwecarneson35289 жыл бұрын

    Powerful. Inspirational. Movement in a positive direction is better than the latter so why do we want to discuss the theory of positive outcomes or doing something for the greater good, this is the problem... discussions that don't lead to action mainly because of politics always barriers since when do people need politics, politics needs people. The fundamental problem of the world - power hungry not hungry for a world of integrity and acting on what is right or wrong. We must always over complicate everything instead of just being present. face the world. feel the world. heal the world.

  • @amandadudley2983
    @amandadudley29835 жыл бұрын

    He is simply amazing--he saw a need for learning and the impoverished--and he acted! More people like this humbling man

  • @bengy757
    @bengy75711 жыл бұрын

    Congratulations for your research Sr. I encourege to you to continue it your research... From Bogota Colombia...Congratulations..

  • @amaa2500
    @amaa250011 жыл бұрын

    I've always thought the same, I know when I grew up my parents never let me explore never let me have freedom, always forced me to do things their way and my schools ways of teaching was very memory based. I'm suffering now because of it...

  • @nayikinisrinivas559
    @nayikinisrinivas5593 жыл бұрын

    Fantastic achievement through the rural poor children.

  • @jkonoch
    @jkonoch Жыл бұрын

    To this day, this remains my favorite TED Talk.

  • @IdoloR
    @IdoloR13 жыл бұрын

    That was genuinely incredible. A Child's brain is an amazing thing. Makes me want to be a teacher just so I can help a little.

  • @Nightwalker9001
    @Nightwalker900111 жыл бұрын

    I really like this idea of group learning too. as humans, we are social and this naturally makes sense to me.

  • @shampoovta
    @shampoovta10 жыл бұрын

    While I was watching this I totally epiphaned. The reason the students developed photographic memories is because it's the same as when a hunting party goes in to the woods. The experience of the adventure and the relationships formed are a far more impressionable learning experience than having a Teacher who already knows where all the animals are and will give away "hot and cold" body language clues. 90% of language is body language. That is why you have all these kids waiting for you to tell them what to do next. I don't blame them for being board out of there minds.

  • @superemzone

    @superemzone

    6 жыл бұрын

    thats an interesting idea!

  • @shanna1950-2812
    @shanna1950-281211 жыл бұрын

    incredibly amazing

  • @skfar
    @skfar11 жыл бұрын

    i'm speechless, thank you

  • @EpochMod
    @EpochMod13 жыл бұрын

    One man has started a change that can't be stopped. /applaud.

  • @drsteveventola
    @drsteveventola13 жыл бұрын

    This is a wonderful video I fully appreciate and am urged to share with my world.

  • @2bsirius
    @2bsirius13 жыл бұрын

    Absolutely awe inspiring.

  • @Nellufy
    @Nellufy13 жыл бұрын

    Brilliant lecture. I enjoyed it very much.

  • @MegF142857
    @MegF14285713 жыл бұрын

    I'm impressed with the Indian culture where kids know how to share and work together seemingly by default. Also kudos to the interfaces people programmed that allowed them to figure things out so easily. Nice thing is that kids on their own don't have a bad teacher "beat" the enthusiasm out of them, as too often happens in school. You often learn in school to hate learning, which is sad. Basically what he is doing for kids is what I try to do for myself. Yeah internet!!! So much can learn!!

  • @LesleyRodgers
    @LesleyRodgers11 жыл бұрын

    Fantastic! More power to you

  • @Daymickey
    @Daymickey10 жыл бұрын

    Beautiful!

  • @fauxman
    @fauxman13 жыл бұрын

    this is one of my favorite tedtalks. For me, it's up there with Ken Robinson.

  • @AHMEDRAZA-nh4xm
    @AHMEDRAZA-nh4xm Жыл бұрын

    This is incredible.

  • @Sartaglo
    @Sartaglo11 жыл бұрын

    The truth of this brought me to tears.

  • @olatunjiadekunle4111
    @olatunjiadekunle41116 жыл бұрын

    Sir, i love ur lecture and I know education is going a long , better and great of learning for generation?

  • @DeadWhiteButterflies
    @DeadWhiteButterflies13 жыл бұрын

    A very heart warming and inspiriing talk. :)

  • @P00P0STER0US
    @P00P0STER0US13 жыл бұрын

    This stuff brings me hope.

  • @vivianalago8306
    @vivianalago83069 жыл бұрын

    Go Sugata...Go!

  • @chiwonome
    @chiwonome11 жыл бұрын

    That was absolutely fantastic.

  • @MrYogesh2801
    @MrYogesh280110 жыл бұрын

    Great sir this very nice way to learning method for india

  • @excellentaloysius5831
    @excellentaloysius58317 жыл бұрын

    Wow! This is awesome!

  • @venkateshamadligeri7501
    @venkateshamadligeri75016 жыл бұрын

    Very good he showing learning methods

  • @reetigarg7398
    @reetigarg73989 жыл бұрын

    Awesome !A must watch.

  • @tdlob1
    @tdlob112 жыл бұрын

    This man, is a true hero. A champion of the future of education. By empowering children to learn themselves as opposed to going through life being "spoon fed" answers, they would forever be on a track to continue educating themselves, long past their days of schooling.

  • @jctemwood
    @jctemwood13 жыл бұрын

    Phenomenal! Reallt could change thw world. Great stuff.

  • @ShailenderSThakur
    @ShailenderSThakur11 жыл бұрын

    Fantastic!!!

  • @Guha10
    @Guha1013 жыл бұрын

    Nice idea n best is the way its executed in different ways all around the world.

  • @DjSlut
    @DjSlut11 жыл бұрын

    Funny and informative. One of the best talks I've seen.

  • @sashakid
    @sashakid13 жыл бұрын

    amazing no words!

  • @SwarnatamaGanguli
    @SwarnatamaGanguli10 жыл бұрын

    superb Indeed...

  • @Bobius10000
    @Bobius1000011 жыл бұрын

    I do hope we get an update from this wonderous gentleman

  • @vvenkat111
    @vvenkat11110 жыл бұрын

    most of the really powerful stuff does seem so obvious in hindsight!

  • @carlingskie2
    @carlingskie213 жыл бұрын

    He's one very bright man I must say.

  • @zeffii
    @zeffii13 жыл бұрын

    excellent talk. : ) i felt those shivers Mr Mitra :)

  • @MrFraser105
    @MrFraser10512 жыл бұрын

    Brilliant presentation

  • @ExperimentLife
    @ExperimentLife12 жыл бұрын

    Wow. That was amazing.

  • @thePricoolas
    @thePricoolas11 жыл бұрын

    the point was the way of learning. When kids are in groups or teams it become way more interesting