DD Kosambi Festival of Ideas 2017. The festival which provides fodder for the mind and also for the soul. The 10th DD Kosambi Festival of Ideas, which hosts best of minds from various arenas of life.This year the festival was held from 13 February to February 17 from 5pm to 7pm at Kala Academy, Panjim Goa.
I attended the third session which was on 15 February.
Mr Kishore Shah was hosting the session for that day.
The topic was about "THE FUTURE OF LEARNING" by none other than Dr. Sugata Mitra ( A professor at Newcastle University, Uk)
The first glimpse of the audience was energetic,
the hall was jam-packed,
each one seemed to be eagerly waiting to listen to Dr Mitra!
Dr Mitra, in his talk and interactive session,
took us through the origins of schooling and the dematerialisation effect.
17 years of experiments with children education with access to the internet. Dr Mitra proudly calls this phenomenon as "Fusion of chaos and order and coins"
These experiments had interesting bandwidth which included:-
Slums of India to the village of India and Cambodia,
to poor schols in Chile, Argentina, Uruguary, USA and Italy to the schools of Gateshead and the rich international schools of washington and Hong-Kong,
All these experiments turned into a new
"FUTURE OF LEARNING"
and the newspaper termed the experiment as "HOLE IN THE WALL" by this title Dr Mitra was awarded the 1 Million Dollar TED Prize in 2013. Dr Mitra used this prize money to build seven schools, but again in a strange way, these were called "SCHOOLS IN CLOUD" by "GRANNY CLOUD" which showed a glimpses of what schools should be for...
Today, When our Government is beating its chest with high decibel slogans like "DIGITAL INDIA" "MAKE IN INDIA" the scene at grass root is different, which makes us beat our forehead,
As there are no proper schools,
and if there are schools there are no teachers,
and if there are schools and teachers,
then students are missing!
"In the 21st Century our schools are preparing students for the jobs of 1920"
-Dr. SUGATA MITRA
It was a Inspiring talk given by Dr Sugata Mitra. 😊
Thank You
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