Esited version of my school in the cloud legacy presentation

1. BY
PRINCETON NIXON
THE SCHOOL IN THE CLOUD:
IMPROVING OUR EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM

2. THE SCHOOL IN THE CLOUD
OVERVIEW
• A result of Sugata Mitra’s Hole in the wall experiment.
• Computers placed in the walls of rural area for under
privileged children to access
• Lead to children learning how to use the computers, and in
certain case information stored on them.
Started off as a simple test to see what under privileged children
in a near by slum would do when given a computer.
Lead to a wider scale experiment.

3. MITRA, AND MY THOUGHTS ON THE
CURRENT EDUCATION SYSTEM.
• It’s obsolete
• It’s still good we just don’t need it anymore
• Quote from The teach gap-”Although many of the
American teachers we observed were highly
competent at implementing American teaching
methods, the methods themselves were severely
limited.”

4. THE SCHOOL IN CLOUDS
METHODS
• Use child driven education
• Using the Children’s natural curiosity to guide lessons
• Using adult leaders to guide lessons

5. CHILD DRIVEN EDUCATION, AND
CURIOSITY DRIVEN LESSONS
• These to go hand in hand.
• Using the children curiosity to guide lessons is a key concept
of Children Driven Education.
• Children are provided the materials, and teach themselves
along with their classmates.
• Can help children see what they are capable of…
• Bring children closer together.

6. “THE GRANNY
METHOD”
• A method using adults to help to encourage children, and keep
them motivated while learning.
• Based off the thing that grandparent would normally say or
ask.
• What that? You know in my day…etc.
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3jYVe1RGaU

7. ACTIVITY
• For the following activity you will be given a coded
message along with all the information need to
solve the message as well as a pencil if needed,
and a piece of paper. You will be allowed about
five minutes to work by yourself, and/or with your
classmates to solve the message which will be
displayed on the next slide.
• If you’re finished before the time is up try to use
what you’ve learned from de-coding the message
to create your own message.

8. DECODED THE MESSAGE
• All the information on the slide is can be used to decode the
message.
• A-Z
• 1-26
• __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __
• 1 18 5 20 8 5 18 5 1 14 25 17 21 5 19 20 9 15 14 19

9. WORKS CITED
• Hiebert, James. "The “Teaching Gap”." CLOSING THE
TEACHING GAP. By James W. Stigler. Corwin: Sage
Publications, 2012. 1-14. Print.
• Mitra, Sugata, Ritu Dangwal, Shiffon Chatterjee, Swati
Jha, Ravinder S. Bisht, and Preeti Kapur. "Acquisition of
Computing L Iteracy on Shared Public
Computers:children." (2012): 1-17. The Hole in the
Wall.com. Web. 21 Mar. 2013
• Mtira, Sugata. "Sugata Mitra: Build a School in the
Cloud." TED: Ideas worth Spreading. TED, n.d. Web. 25
Mar. 2013.