and evolution, discovering the five
bones holding the web on the first
amphibians’ fins, and studying geometry. Their investigation resulted
in this final answer: The strongest
web that can be stretched the widest must have five supports.
Now, I launch my SOLE toolkit —
designed to empower teacher and
parents to create their own spaces
for sparking children’s curiosity and
agency. My team and I are excited
to see more educators trying this
future-oriented pedagogical tool
on for size and then sharing their
learnings are insights so we can all
benefit from the hive mind.
Meanwhile, with my newly bestowed TED Prize, my team and I
will build The School in the Cloud,
a learning lab in India where children can embark on intellectual adventures by engaging and connecting with information and mentoring
online. Technology, architecture,
creative, and educational partners
will help us design and build it.
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Kids will help us explore a range of
cloud-based, scalable approaches
to self-directed learning. A global
network of educators and retired
teachers will support and engage
the children through the web.
We need a curriculum of big
questions, examinations where
children can talk, share and use the
Internet, and new, peer assessment
systems. We need children from a
range of economic and geographic
backgrounds and an army of visionary educators. We need a pedagogy
free from fear and focused on the
magic of children’s innate quest for
information and understanding.
In the networked age, we need
schools, not structured like factories, but like clouds.
Join us up there.
Sugata Mitra is the winner of the
2013 TED Prize.
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