Sugata Mitra

Updated: 03/06/2020 by Computer Hope

Name: Sugata Mitra

Born: February 12, 1952, in Calcutta, West Bengal, India

Computer-related contributions

Professor of Educational Technology at the School of Education, Communication, and Language Sciences at Newcastle University, England.
Known for his "Hole in the Wall" project that placed basic computers inside a hole in remote places around the world to see if people in local villages could teach themselves about computers.
Chief scientist, emeritus, at NIIT.

Kids Can Teach Themselves (TED talk) (2007).
Beyond the Hole in the Wall: Discover the Power of Self-Organized Learning (2012).
Collaborative learning amongst distance learners of mathematics (2012).
Children and the Internet - A preliminary study in Uruguay (2012).
The Child-driven Education (TED talk) (2012).
Build a School in the Cloud (TED talk) (2013).
Self-Organised Learning Environments (SOLEs) in an English School: an example of transformative pedagogy? (2013)
The Future of Schooling: Children and Learning at the Edge of Chaos (2014).
Minimally Invasive Education: Pedagogy for Development in a Connected World (2015).
Learning at the Edge of Chaos: Self-Organising Systems in Education (2016).
Acquisition of computer literacy skills through self-organizing systems of learning among children in Bhutan and India (2017).
New Systems for Children's Learning: Changes Required in Education (2018).
Investigating the impact of Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) to help improve reading comprehension in low performing urban elementary schools (2019).

"In nine months, a group of children left alone with a computer in any language will reach the same standard as an office secretary in the West."