Thursday 5 February 2009

snip test

~ Sir Arthur C. Clarke

During his talk at the Lift Conference in Geneva, Sugata Mitra discusses the implications of the remoteness of education as it relates to primary education. He puts forth the following questions:

Is it true that the more remote the school, the lower the quality of education?Where is educational technology better suited at this stage of its integration - remote areas or urban centers?Can technology alter the acquisition of values?Can education be self-organizing?