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Scientists set up computers and watch children learn.
Mitra and his colleagues describe the kind of education they were experimenting with as minimally invasive education, a descriptor borrowed from the medical world of surgery. It is education with the minimal amount of intrusion into children's lives. The experiments demonstrated that children learned at an amazingly rapid rate with no adult teachers. All that the educators had to do was to provide the tool, the computer. The children's natural curiosity, playfulness, and sociability took over from there.This is from Peter Gray's Freedom to Learn blog, which has lots of interesting info.
1 comments:
Gee, who woulda thunk?
It's funny that they need a computer in order to watch kids learn, any attentive caregiver can see it happening.
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