Hello all,
Enclosed is a link to video of Sugata Mitra’s presentation at the 2007 LIFT conference in Switzerland. I think it is a very interesting presentation to watch through a motivational perspective.
Prof. Sugata Mitra is currently (2008) Professor of Educational Technology at the School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences at Newcastle University, UK. He is best known as the instigator of the Hole in the Wall (HIW) experiment, where in the year 1999 a computer was placed in a kiosk created within a wall in an Indian slum at Kalkaji, Delhi and children were allowed to freely use it. The experiment aimed at proving that kids could be taught computers very easily without any formal training. Sugata termed this as Minimally Invasive Education (MIE). The experiment has since been repeated at many places, HIW has more than 23 kiosks in rural India. In 2004 the experiment was also carried on in Cambodia with the same results. His latest interest is the self-organizing tendencies of learners, much of the same phenomenon known as emergence that governs the behavior of complex systems. A concept that that I believe is useful when we looking at student motivation.
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Jozsef,
I had not heard of the "hole-in-the-wall" experiment. It was interesting how all of a sudden it was easy to learn English, and to learn computer use: just provide a means and a motivation. What a poster-child for motivation by interest.
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