Sugata Mitra - Give kids information, let them get on with it

sam_uk · 2016-05-09T21:35:30.820Z

This guy might be a useful contact:

en.wikipedia.org

Sugata Mitra | Education and cognitive science studies

Mitra is a leading proponent of Minimally invasive education. He has a PhD in Physics but is credited with more than 25 inventions in the area of cognitive science and education technology.[citation needed] He was conferred the Dewang Mehta Award for Innovation in Information Technology in the year 2005. In September 2012 Mitra won the Leonardo European Corporate Learning Award in the "Crossing Border" category. He argued that broken connections in simulated neural networks are a mode Mitra's wor...

BBC

BBC Radio 4 - Start the Week, Technology in Education

Andrew Marr on education with Sugata Mitra, Neil Selwyn, Tony Little and Lynsey Hanley.