This is a power point for the school legacy project

1. By
Princeton Nixon
THE SCHOOL IN THE CLOUD
IMPROVING OUR EDUCATIONAL
SYSTEM

2. A result of Sugata Mitra’s Hole in the wall experiment.
Computers placed in the walls of rural area for under privileged children to access
Lead to children learning how to use the computers, and in certain case information
stored on them.
Started off as a simple test to see what under privileged children in a near
by slum would do when given a computer.
Lead to a wider scale experiment.
THE SCHOOL IN THE CLOUD
OVERVIEW

3. • It’s obsolete
• It’s still good we just don’t need it anymore
• Quote from The teach gap-”Although many of the American teachers we
observed were highly competent at implementing American teaching
methods, the methods themselves were severely limited.”
MITRA, AND MY THOUGHTS ON
THE CURRENT EDUCATION
SYSTEM.

4. • Use child driven education
• Using the Children’s natural curiosity to guide lessons
• Using adult leaders to guide lessons
THE SCHOOL IN CLOUDS
METHODS

5. • These to go hand in hand.
• Using the children curiosity to guide lessons is a key concept of
Children Driven Education.
• Children are provided the materials, and teach themselves along with
their classmates.
• Can help children see what they are capable of…
• Bring children closer together.
CHILD DRIVEN EDUCATION, AND
CURIOSITY DRIVEN LESSONS

6. • A method using adults to help to encourage children, and keep them
motivated while learning.
• Based off the thing that grandparent would normally say or ask.
• What that? You know in my day…etc.
“THE GRANNY METHOD”

7. For the following activity you will be given a coded message along with all the
information need to solve the message as well as a pencil, and a piece of
paper. You will be allowed about five minutes to work by yourself, and/or
with you classmates to solve the message which will be displayed on the next
slide.
ACTIVITY

8. All the information on the slide is can be used to decode the message.
A-Z
1-26
__ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __
1 18 5 20 8 5 18 5 1 14 25 17 21 5 19 20 9 15 14
DECODED THE MESSAGE

9. Hiebert, James. "The “Teaching Gap”." CLOSING THE TEACHING GAP.
By James W. Stigler. Corwin: Sage Publications, 2012. 1-14. Print.
Mitra, Sugata, Ritu Dangwal, Shiffon Chatterjee, Swati Jha, Ravinder S.
Bisht, and Preeti Kapur. "Acquisition of Computing L Iteracy on Shared
Public Computers:children." (2012): 1-17. The Hole in the Wall.com. Web. 21
Mar. 2013
Mtira, Sugata. "Sugata Mitra: Build a School in the Cloud." TED: Ideas worth
Spreading. TED, n.d. Web. 25 Mar. 2013.
WORKS CITED