• Learning

    Self-Organized Learning Environment & Child-Driven Education

    Minimally supervised learning and computers in the slum areas of India; an idea that arguably inspired Slumdog Millionaire, the hit movie. The original concept of Sugata Mitra was Minimally Invasive Education, which has evolved into its current iteration of Self-Organized Learning Environment. Critics have labeled projects of such nature ones that “[d]ump hardware in schools, [and] hope for magic to happen.” Others are more scathing. I feel we don’t have to assume that only one scenario is possibly realizable. That children are either destructivists (is there such a word?) or constructivists. Are children capable of teaching…