Name: Build a School in the Cloud
Uploaded: 2013-02-27T22:38:00Z
Duration: 22 min 14 s
Description: Onstage at TED2013, Sugata Mitra makes his bold TED Prize wish: Help me design the School in the Cloud, a learning lab in India, where children can explore and learn from each other -- using resources and mentoring from the cloud. Hear his inspiring vision for Self Organized Learning Environments.

Sugata Mitra: Build a School in the Cloud

Build a School in the Cloud

Onstage at TED2013, Sugata Mitra makes his bold TED Prize wish: Help me design the School in the Cloud, a learning lab in India, where children can explore and learn from each other -- using resources and mentoring from the cloud. Hear his inspiring vision for Self Organized Learning Environments.

Education systems were designed for an empire that needed identical workers, but today’s world demands flexible, curious minds. Experiments in India showed that children in slums, with no formal instruction, taught themselves to use computers and even learned advanced concepts in English. Encouragement, access to information, and collaboration sparked dramatic progress without traditional teachers. The vision of a School in the Cloud is to let learning emerge naturally, powered by big questions and the innate drive to explore.