In the Ted Talk Sugata Mitra: Child-Led Education, Mitra talks about various experiments he has started in various parts of India. These experiments involve the use of computers by children in India. Many strong points were identified, one of which really stands out among all. Computers could revolutionize the way children learn today, especially in the places where teachers are needed most. Places where good teachers don't go. Children who are sufficiently curious will become self-sufficient in their learning. I believe Sugata Mitra's thoughts on revolutionizing children's education are valid because children will learn what they are interested in, little basic knowledge with computers is needed to understand how to use them, and the results of these experiments have proven to be extremely progressive for education in India. It is difficult to teach someone something if they are not willing to learn it. Today we believe that this is a serious offense to education. Learning must be reached halfway to achieve knowledge. With experiments in India, Mitra placed the first computer in a wall in the slums of New Delhi, India. The children who lived there started using it and immediately understood how it worked. This just goes to show that kids will learn if they are truly intrigued by something. These children have aspirations because a good education was never an option for them. It is new and interesting to them and they love gaining knowledge about what interests them. Another point to highlight is that these children learned to use the computer remarkably quickly. In just two months, these kids had already figured out how to download games from Disney.com. In another example... halfway down the paper... very close to the neutral British accent I had trained the speech-to-text synthesizer with." This passage can only lead us to believe that, somewhere down the road, they might be teaching other languages on their own. The possibilities are endless. This revolutionized system would be based on one of many things. These children have studied independently and have learned so far self-organized, and the use of emergency, can inevitably lead to one of Sugata's strengths: "Education is a self-organized system, in which learning is an emergent phenomenon these kids have demonstrated." over the years of experimentation. Mitra's experiment has been a huge success, and it would not be a surprise if his idea of an educational revolution spread.
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