Mobile Phone, Internet in the Examination Hall!

Mobile phone in exam hall

Allowing the Internet into the examination hall will change the entire system. The questions will need to be different. The curriculum will need to be different.

Said Sugata Mitra, a Professor of Educational Technology at the School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences at Newcastle University, England and winner of the 2013 TED Prize; known for the "Hole in the Wall" experiment.

Take the hole in the wall, take the granny cloud, take the SOLE -- put it all together and you get the School in the Cloud. With his TED Prize money, he created 7 of these. Over a 3 year period, where did the children take themselves? Today they are 1.5 years into it. The classroom looks like a business class lounge for children. Computers and places to sit together, on the wall, an Xbox.

The teacher had to be more interesting than the Xbox. You drive the system with a question. "Why don't our teeth grow back a second time?" - 40 minutes later the kids come back with a lot of amazing information about gum health.

Sugata Mitra is Professor of Educational Technology at the School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences at Newcastle University, England and winner of the 2013 TED Prize. Known for the "hole in the wall" experiment.

"Groups of children, using The Internet, can learn anything by themselves". The method of the grandmother stands behind them. Say "wow, that's fantastic. How did you do that? Where did you get that from? When I was a child, I couldn't do anything like that.

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Account BenefitThe children respond with "Oh, you're stupid -- this is easy. Let me show you." It's a method very different from the parent or the teacher. The grandmother's method using admiration as the driving force to start each learning cycle. And it worked.

So now he has created the granny cloud. British grandmothers with webcams who get beamed into remote places. They don't teach, they just admire.

"It's not about making learning happen. It's about letting it happen." Your next billion they are going to be explorers, hunter gatherers. They can carry the entire body of knowledge in their pockets. That's what we need to prepare for.

The edge of chaos. Emergence. A completely organized systems is too much; chaos is too much. But if you bring them together -- nature's way is to operate on the edge of chaos.

"Learning can emerge as spontaneous order at the edge of chaos." Your talent will come from the edge of chaos. What's next in the world where what you teach today becomes obsolete tomorrow?

Knowing is NOT the most important thing. To be able to FIND OUT is more important than knowing. Skill education has changed completely. Students watch YouTube to learn how to erect a scaffold. A day later they are up two floors on their scaffold.

We have to prepare the workplace to drive the car. At the edge of chaos, you can't predict where it will go. But it always goes somewhere.