The School in the Cloud: The Emerging Future of Learning (Corwin Teaching Essentials)

About this book

The Science and the Story of the Future of Learning Educators have been trying to harness the "promise" of technology in education for decades to no avail but we have learned that children in groupswhen given access to the Internetcan learn anything by themselves. In this groundbreaking book youll glimpse the emerging future of learning with technology. It turns out the promise isnt in the technology itself; its in the self-directed learning of the children who use it. In 1999 Sugata Mitra conducted the famous "Hole in the Wall" experiment that inspired three TED Talks and earned him the first million-dollar TED prize for research in 2013. Since then he has conducted new research around self-organized learning environments (SOLE) building "Schools in the Cloud" all over the world. This new book shares the results of this research and offers Examples of thriving Schools in the Cloud in unlikely places Mitras predictions on the future of learning How to design assessments for self-organizing learning How to build your own School in the Cloud Clips from the documentary The School in the Cloud Discover the future of learning by digging deep into Mitras thought-provoking experiences examples and vision.