So, we talk a lot about it, we agree it’s important, and there are many opinions on how best to do it – curriculum-led, project-based, self-directed, on-the-job, etc. but is there any clear understanding or consensus about how learning actually happens?
Sugata Mitra, best known for his “Hole in the Wall” experiment in New Delhi, India, has some interesting thoughts on the subject based on his understanding of theoretical physics, and his studies of learning.
In this thought provoking conversation Sugata Mitra and Cecile and Jesper Conrad discuss the difference between self-directed, self-organised, and self-organising systems in education – and why it matters.
They also talk about technology and what it means to “know” in the 21st century, Russian physicist Ilya Prigogine, as well as the power of communication and communal learning in self-organising systems.
Turns out that a lot of learning probably happens all by itself given autonomy and resources, and crucially – freedom to communicate and collaborate with other people.
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