Of the reports made available on-line conference in Turin ended March 26 "A School Day in 2020" organized by the Foundation for School Compagnia di San Paolo, the intervention that I found most interesting was to Sugata Mitra, Professor of Technology Education and Director of Research, School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences, University of Newcastle, UK. The teacher presented a model of self-organized learning activities, the gap of where geographic isolation is the greatest need have access to technologies for education because that is where there are no good schools or good teachers. The
"HiWEL" (Hole-in-the-Wall Education Limited), has set up the computer stations in the road and weather resistant to any attempts at tampering and petty theft, can work independently but also have a remote control device (Remote Monitoring Station) to monitor their daily use. Access always available allows children (the shelter shelters are deliberately positioned at a low height to avoid the use of stations by adults) to find educational software that engages children in specific projects directly related to their daily lives: carefully planned educational tests have found the small people, not just a better school performance, but, more importantly, development collaborative skills and an ability to analyze and synthesize indirectly induced and evaluate information that will make them life-long learner. Thanks to their special "holes in the walls" children find information, collect data and draw up reports for the community.
India is planning to be able to access to basic education by 2010 all children, and - especially - girls aged 6 to 14 years living in both rural and urban areas and the initiative of HiWEL seems the key to both ensure the inclusiveness that the desired quality for such an initiative.
There is no doubt that the future of education will be very different from the situation today: the desire can not fail to discover, learn, learn which children are seen queuing up in the CNN video below (the stations have been a source of inspiration for the film "Slumdog Millionnaire"), a curiosity that the school is connected back to its roots industrial, with teachers perched in their illusion of having all the knowledge and the magic formula to administer to their students, they do not know what it is. Even teachers who use ICT often are careful to question the functioning of the education system (George Louis Baron), and what they need now is
students - use technology everywhere and at all times their learning the requests for access to essential information to pursue their goals
- use a wide range of learning resources and collaboration with others in an environment that provides online services wherever they are and ensure access to that support for teaching and learning that is formal the network (Levy and Murni cited by Doug Brown).
stubborn professors who consider themselves untouchable sources of knowledge I would like to point out that when the BBC August 24, 2006 at 13:30 informed that the planets of the solar system had suddenly become only the eighth because astronomers had reviewed the characteristics of the planets, 13:31 Wikipedia's article was updated and was already well-adjusted 90 times before midnight the same day, and that using Open Courses university of MIT is like finding $ 40,000 on a bench in the words of a certain Michael from a small town rural America.
Eric van Hippel of MIT professor and author of "Democratizing Innovation" uses the word "prosumer" epitomizza that the nature of cooperative networks of knowledge creation of the network merging "producer" and "consumer": the teaching of coming decades will be focused on the learner, to be rich in technology, exploratory in nature and focused on problem solving (Tracy Grey).
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