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Similarities between Mitra and Robinson's Video - Coggle Diagram
Similarities between Mitra and Robinson's Video
The Child Driven Education By Sugata Mitra
Mitra is more interested in technology as a way to create a child centered learning model, where teachers are mediators and students are able to learn information with the help of their peers.
Mitra is not as concerned with the cultural implications of all the students in India having British mediators vs having mediators from India. The anecdote he tells about the Telugu students speaking like BBC reporters so the computer will understand them for speech to text is very concerning in terms of losing ones culture in order to get an education. This is not to say that this does not occur is conventional classrooms, however it still should be thought about when using technology in education.
Differences
Changing education paradigms by Ken Robinson
Robinson is not really concerned with technology as a means to change education. He is more concerned with how students think, specifically in terms of divergent thinking. He defines divergent thinking as coming up with a wide variety of answers to one question and interpreting questions in a wide variety of ways.
Robinson is also very concerned with the cultural impact of education, and even lists it as one of his two main reasons that education reform is happening globally. He does not go into too much detail, but does mention that it is hard to keep ones cultural identity in the face of globalization.
Differences
Students learn better in groups
Ken Robinson also advocates for collaboration. He mentions that when you are in the classroom often students are not allowed to consult with other to figure out an answer, when this is common in a workplace.
During Mitra's experiments of teaching new skills to students through technology, the greatest success he had was when students were in groups and conversing about the topic while using the computer
New Ways of Educating Students to ready them for the future
Mitra advocates for educational technology as a means of democratizing education worldwide. He also advocates for child centered education, where students are in charge of their learning and the teacher is more of a facilitator.
Robinson advocates for allowing for divergent thinking, which he defines as the ability to see multiple ways to interpret a question as well as many different solutions. This is antithetical to the factory like school system that originated around the time of industrialization.
Student ability is being underestimated
Mitra starts his talk thinking about the places that great teachers will not go. He primarily conducted his experiments in lower socioeconomic areas in India, where many do not believe in the students ability to learn or use technology
Robinson believes that many students are being underserved by traditional teaching methods due to the rigidity of the school system. Students are rewarded for conformity and punished for thinking outside the box.
