THE SCHOOL IN THE CLOUD

The Science and the Story of the Future of Learning Educators have been trying to harness the promise of technology in education for decades to no avail but we have learned that children in groups when given access to the Internet can learn anything by themselves In this groundbreaking book you ll glimpse the emerging future of learning with technology It turns out the promise isn t in the technology itself it s in the self directed learning of the children who use it In 1999 Sugata Mitra conducted the famous Hole in the Wall experiment that inspired three TED Talks and earned him the first million dollar TED prize for research in 2013 Since then he has conducted new research around self organized learning environments SOLE building Schools in the Cloud all over the world This new book shares the results of this research and offers Examples of thriving Schools in the Cloud in unlikely places Mitra s predictions on the future of learning How to design assessments for self organizing learning How to build your own School in the Cloud Clips from the documentary The School in the Cloud Discover the future of learning by digging deep into Mitra s thought provoking experiences examples and vision