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The Future Of Learning By Sugata Mitra

PLENARY BY SUGATA MITRA

In this talk, Sugata Mitra will take us through the origins of schooling as we know it, to the dematerialisation of institutions as we know them. Thirteen years of experiments in children's education takes us through a series of startling results – children can self-organise their own learning, they can achieve educational objectives on their own, they can read by themselves. Finally, the most startling of them all: groups of children with access to the internet can learn anything by themselves. From the slums of India, to the villages of India and Cambodia, to poor schools in Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, the USA and Italy, to the schools of Gateshead and the rich international schools of Washington and Hong Kong, Sugata's experimental results show a strange new future for learning.

The future of learning
In this talk, Sugata Mitra will take us through the origins of schooling as we know it, to the dematerialisation of institutions as we know them. Thirteen years of experiments in children's education takes us through a series of startling results – children can self-organise their own learning, they can achieve educational objectives on their own, they can read by themselves.
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Sugata Mitra is Professor of Educational Technology at the School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences at Newcastle University, UK - See more at: http://iatefl.britishcouncil.org/2014/sessions/2014-04-05/plenary-sugata-mitra#sthash.HsKn2afO.dpuf

Sugata Mitra is Professor of Educational Technology at the School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences at Newcastle University, UK - See more at: http://iatefl.britishcouncil.org/2014/sessions/2014-04-05/plenary-sugata-mitra#sthash.HsKn2afO.dpuf

Sugata Mitra is Professor of Educational Technology at the School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences at Newcastle University, UK. His interests include Children’s Education, Remote Presence, Self-organising systems, Cognitive Systems, Physics and Consciousness. Professor Mitra’s work at NIIT created the first curricula and pedagogy for that organisation, followed by years of research on learning styles, learning devices, several of them now patented, multimedia and new methods of learning. Culminating and, perhaps, towering over his previous work, are his “hole in the wall” experiments with children’s learning. Since 1999, he has convincingly demonstrated that groups of children, irrespective of who or where they are, can learn to use computers and the internet on their own using public computers in open spaces such as roads and playgrounds. He brought these results to England in 2006 and invented Self Organised Learning Environments, now in use throughout the world. In 2009, he created the Granny Cloud of teachers who interact with children over the Internet. Since the 1970s, Professor Mitra’s publications and work has resulted in training and development of perhaps a million young Indians, amongst them some of the poorest children in the world. The resultant changes in the lives of people and the economy of the country can only be guessed at. - See more at: http://iatefl.britishcouncil.org/2014/sessions/2014-04-05/plenary-sugata-mitra#sthash.HsKn2afO.dpuf

Sugata Mitra is Professor of Educational Technology at the School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences at Newcastle University, UK. His interests include Children’s Education, Remote Presence, Self-organising systems, Cognitive Systems, Physics and Consciousness. Professor Mitra’s work at NIIT created the first curricula and pedagogy for that organisation, followed by years of research on learning styles, learning devices, several of them now patented, multimedia and new methods of learning. Culminating and, perhaps, towering over his previous work, are his “hole in the wall” experiments with children’s learning. Since 1999, he has convincingly demonstrated that groups of children, irrespective of who or where they are, can learn to use computers and the internet on their own using public computers in open spaces such as roads and playgrounds. He brought these results to England in 2006 and invented Self Organised Learning Environments, now in use throughout the world. In 2009, he created the Granny Cloud of teachers who interact with children over the Internet. Since the 1970s, Professor Mitra’s publications and work has resulted in training and development of perhaps a million young Indians, amongst them some of the poorest children in the world. The resultant changes in the lives of people and the economy of the country can only be guessed at. - See more at: http://iatefl.britishcouncil.org/2014/sessions/2014-04-05/plenary-sugata-mitra#sthash.HsKn2afO.dpuf

Sugata Mitra is Professor of Educational Technology at the School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences at Newcastle University, UK. His interests include Children’s Education, Remote Presence, Self-organising systems, Cognitive Systems, Physics and Consciousness. Professor Mitra’s work at NIIT created the first curricula and pedagogy for that organisation, followed by years of research on learning styles, learning devices, several of them now patented, multimedia and new methods of learning. Culminating and, perhaps, towering over his previous work, are his “hole in the wall” experiments with children’s learning. Since 1999, he has convincingly demonstrated that groups of children, irrespective of who or where they are, can learn to use computers and the internet on their own using public computers in open spaces such as roads and playgrounds. He brought these results to England in 2006 and invented Self Organised Learning Environments, now in use throughout the world. In 2009, he created the Granny Cloud of teachers who interact with children over the Internet. Since the 1970s, Professor Mitra’s publications and work has resulted in training and development of perhaps a million young Indians, amongst them some of the poorest children in the world. The resultant changes in the lives of people and the economy of the country can only be guessed at. - See more at: http://iatefl.britishcouncil.org/2014/sessions/2014-04-05/plenary-sugata-mitra#sthash.HsKn2afO.dpuf

 INTERVIEW WITH SUGATA MITRA

Interview with Sugata Mitra

Two Songs For The Weekend

TRAIN an American pop rock band.
"HEY, SOUL SISTER "
 Watch the video and then go to MULTIMEDIA ENGLISH to read the lyrics and sing along






SADE is a British singer-songwriter, composer and record producer
"IS IT A CRIME"

• Watch the video and we´ll talk about the feelings.

• Now,the song again with  thge lyrics

No Trace Of Malaysian Airliner

Pre-Listening Vocabulary

• false alarm: something that turns out to be untrue or unrelated
• debris: parts or materials that are left or found after an accident
• distress: anxiety; major concern or worry
• emerge: to become known after some time, or to come into view
• hijacking: the illegal takeover of a vehicle by force
• rule out: to exclude; to state that something is definitely not the cause

Now listen, answer the questions and fill in the gaps.

For Further Information go to Scoop.it

Malaysian Airlines MH370: live - Telegraph

Events in Ukraine

Three Short Videos and a Timeline for Understanding Current Events in Ukraine

 The ongoing situation in Ukraine is a complicated topic for middle school and high school students in current events courses. The following short videos do a nice job of providing an overview of the key points in understanding the current situation. For a text-based overview of the situation, take a look at this timeline from the BBC.

 Keith Hughes offers a good overview

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John Green, in his typical fast-paced style with a dose of snark, offers an overview in the video below.
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The BBC provides a 60 second overview of Crimea and its significance in the current situation.

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Prefixes and Suffixes

PREFIXES AND SUFFIXES

• Grammar about.com. Common Prefixes in English

Prefix	Meaning	Example
a-, an-	without	amoral
ante-	before	antecedent
anti-	against	anticlimax
auto-	self	autopilot
circum-	around	circumvent
co-	with	copilot
com-, con-	with	companion, contact
contra-	against	contradict
de-	off, away from	devalue
dis-	not	disappear
en-	put into	enclose
ex-	out of, former	extract, ex-president
extra-	beyond, more than	extracurricular
hetero-	different	heterosexual
homo-	same	homonym
hyper-	over, more	hyperactive
il-, im-, in-, ir-	not, without	illegal, immoral, inconsiderate, irresponsible
in-	into	insert
inter-	between	intersect
intra-	between	intravenous
macro-	large	macroeconomics
micro-	small	microscope
mono-	one	monocle
non-	not, without	nonentity
omni-	all, every	omniscient
post-	after	postmortem
pre-, pro-	before, forward	precede, project
sub-	under	submarine
syn-	same time	synchronize
trans-	across	transmit
tri-	three	tricycle
un-	not	unfinished
uni-	one	unicorn

• E Learn English Language. Negative Prefixes 
• English Club.com 
• Teacher Scholastic.com
• English Exercises.Word Formation
• Watch a video .

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Fighting Crime

Why smart statistics are the key to fighting crime .

Anne Milgram

When she became the attorney general of New Jersey in 2007, Anne Milgram quickly discovered a few startling facts: not only did her team not really know who they were putting in jail, but they had no way of understanding if their decisions were actually making the public safer. And so began her ongoing, inspirational quest to bring data analytics and statistical analysis to the US criminal justice system. 

Literature Comprehension

LITERATURE COMPREHENSION

 Select a novel to read and then test your knowledge

 

• Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
• Children of the New Forest by Captain Marryat
• Gullivers Travels by Jonathon Swift
• Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
• The Hound of the Baskervilles by Alexander Conan Doyle
• The Railway Children by E. Nesbit
• The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
• The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
• Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
• White Fang by Jack London

Word Formation

• WF001-Word Formation Exercises

• Gap-fill exercise

• CAE Word Formation 

   

  

   

   Muscle Cars

  

  Muscle cars were never intended to be valuable. In fact, the whole idea behind
  muscle cars was to make them (1) ... and fast. Muscle cars were stripped-down	EXPENSIVE
  versions of the most (2) ... homely, and basic mass-produced cars to ever roll out	UTILITY
  of Detroit. These rattle trap, bare bones, crude devices were built to conform to
  a price point with little regard given to sophistication or (3) ..., and aimed squarely	LONG
  at the (4) ... market. And this market couldn't get enough of them. These were the	YOUNG
  cars every red-blooded American kid wanted. The image, the speed, the (5) ...	LIFE
  were all highly addictive. Looking back, the muscle car years were (6) ... brief	RELATIVE
  moment in time that we will never see the likes of again. It was a perfect storm,
  just what the market wanted, and was presented at the right place in the right time.
  So how did these seemingly (7) ... cars, built in large numbers and owned by	DISPOSE
  kids who (8) ... tried to kill them from the first twist of the key, become so valuable?	LITERAL
  More (9) ..., why did they become so valuable? Most people are astounded when	IMPORT
  they hear the recent sales results of the most (10) ... muscle cars. We call them	DESIRE
  two-comma cars, cars that are worth so much money that you need two commas
  to separate all the zeroes in the price.

CAE Open Cloze

CAE Open Cloze

For questions 1-15, read the text below and think of the word which fits each gap. Use only one word in each gap. You can use the "?" button to get a clue but by doing so you will lose points. Click Here for Description

The Wondrous World of Coffee

A cup of coffee, like any (1) ... experience, can be enriched by selection and consciousness. "No beans (2) ... it," the best coffee decisions (3) ... the ones most pleasant to one's own palate - the selection of one's coffee is a matter of personal preference. Choosing coffee beans can also be a perplexing experience, (4) ... there is a huge range of coffee types and beans blends from (5) ... around the world. The final flavour and quality involves (6) ... complex factors, beginning with the coffee seed, the beans' botanics, a wide variety of soil and climate conditions, cultivation altitudes, and the care (7) ... in harvesting the beans. Raw green coffee beans are then subjected (8) ... many influencing factors, including various processing, production, roasting, blending and brewing methods. On a global note, (9) ... many species and varieties of coffee trees from different areas of the world also offer their own distinctive flavours. (10) ... are more than forty-five coffee-exporting countries - all of (11) ... use different classification systems - that supply the world (12) ... coffee beans, in sizes ranging over sixty known species of coffee plants. (13) ... wonder coffee can involve a puzzling java jargon! Fortunately, the world's coffee nomenclature, from mountain to market, can be classified (14) ... simple categories. This briefly outlines the basics of bean botanics, coffee cultivation and processing, and global classifications used by the coffee trade (15) ... coffee-producing countries.

 

International Workers Day Vocabulary

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List of vocabulary items related to International Workers Day (May Day / Labor Day / Labor Day) 

Protest

A strong complaint expressing disagreement, disapproval or opposition:

Protests have been made by many workers who would be affected by the new company policy.
Farmers have united in protest against the planned new road.

To protest is the verb

They protested against the new manager's decisions

Demonstrations

The act of demonstrating as when a group of people march or stand together to show that they disagree with or support something or someone:

The workers are holding a demonstration to protest against the bad working conditions.
An anti-war demonstration in front of the US embassy.

Riot

A noisy, violent, and uncontrolled public gathering as by a crowd protesting against another group of people, employer, governments...

Riots erupted in the inner- city when a local young man was shot by police.

To riot is the verb = to take part in a riot:

Workers are rioting in the streets of the capital.

Rioters (noun)

Strike

To refuse to continue working because of an argument with an employer about working conditions, pay levels or job losses:

Workers have the right to strike and join a trade union.
Workers are striking for better wages and improved safety standards

A strike (noun.)

Go on strike

To start a strike

Unions

Also, trades union (British English) or labor union (American English.) An organization that represents the people who work in a particular industry, protects their rights, and discusses their pay and working conditions with employers:

The employer's decisions have been strongly criticized by the trade unions.

Related materials:

• Reading: International Workers' Day
• Reading: Trade Unions
• Vocabulary Lesson: Vocabulary related to International Workers Day
• Vocabulary Quiz: International Workers' Day and Trade Unions Vocabulary