(UEFS 2014 - Meio do ano)TEXTO:Heads in the cloud

(UEFS 2014 - Meio do ano)

TEXTO:

Heads in the cloud

It all started with the wall. In 1999 education researcher Sugata Mitra and his colleagues thought it would be interesting to install a computer in a wall bordering an urban slum in New Delhi to see what the 5 kids there might make of it. The results were stunning. With no supervision, the children taught themselves how to use the computer, including picking up English to look for answers to all sorts of questions. Subsequent similar experiments led Mitra to conclude that the most creative 10 and productive education comes when children aren’t threatened but inspired – especially by their peers. The traditional approach was created by the British to train the subjects of the empire, and, he argues, the system continues to produce “identical people for a machine that 15 no longer exists.” Instead, what he calls a self-organized learning environment is all about getting kids excited about what they can know. In a proposal that won Mitra the TED award this year, he suggests creating an enormous self-organized school in the cloud, where, with 20 a little guidance but minimal interference from “grandmothers,” kids can explore the universe at will to answer their own questions and those that are put to them.

DICKEY, Christopher. Heads in the cloud. In: Big Think, Around the world in six ideas. Newsweek, Mar 25, 2013. p. 8.

Fill in the parentheses with T (True) or F (False). It’s stated in the text:

(  ) Sugata Mitra and his colleagues donated lots of computers to the inhabitants of a slum in New Delhi.

(  ) The slum kids were highly motivated by the opportunity of having a computer in their area.

(  ) The kids who lived in that slum couldn’t make the most of the opportunity because all the sites and comments were in English.

(  ) The slum kids learned how to use the computer all on their own.

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