Turning Kids From India's Slums Into Autodidacts
Turning Kids From India’s Slums Into Autodidacts
Self Organizing Learning Environments & Self Organized Mediation Environments
Self-Organizing Systems in Primary Education
One of my philosophical passions is bottom-up order.
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WSJ.com - One of my philosophical passions is bottom-up order. | http://on.wsj.com/end8ZP
WSJ.com - ...that some of the finest complexity in the world comes about through spontaneous emergence,.. http://on.wsj.com/end8ZP
WSJ.com - ... not top-down diktat. | http://on.wsj.com/end8ZP
WSJ.com - This is true of ecosystems and economies, of genomes and cultures, of embryos and encyclopedias.| http://on.wsj.com/end8ZP
WSJ.com - Education, though, feels like one of those things that has to be top-down:..| http://on.wsj.com/end8ZP
feels like .. I feel .. you feel .. he feels .. but despite .. how someone feels like .. about it
.. now knowledge .. becomes accessible online .. it is possible for everybody .. to be an autodidact .. people to educate themselves ..
educate .. learning .. can learn by themselves .. guided by .. have well-posed questions to answer ..
Dr. Mitra's next brainchild, SOLE, takes this dynamic into the classroom.
education .. learning .. being taken out .. of the hands .. of oligarchs ..
whoever .. makes ..a killing out of it ..
what comes along .. and .. certainly .. benefits .. societies ..
He is convinced that, with the Internet, kids can learn by themselves, so long as they are in small groups and have well-posed questions to answer.
Human beings have a hard time understanding
... that some of the finest complexity in the world comes about through spontaneous emergence,
... not top-down diktat.
This is true of ecosystems and economies, of genomes and cultures, of embryos and encyclopedias.
Education, though, feels like one of those things that has to be top-down: There has to be a teacher and a taught. But plenty of people educate themselves. Is it possible for everybody to be an autodidact, now that knowledge is so accessible online?
SOLE & SOME .. Self Organizing Learning Environments & Self Organized Mediation Environments | http://solesandsomes.wikispaces.com/
Emergence is always spontaneous. Emerges from the dynamics of systemic enaction. Self-organization is linked to autopoietics that, in turn, depends upon the initial conditions and upon the interactive systemic dynamics, there is always an other, an other limit...
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