From the NY TimesBy EMILY B. HAGERPublished: October 29, 2010OWEN CAIN depends on a respirator and struggles to make even the slightest movements — he has had a debilitating motor-neuron disease since infancy.Owen, 7, does not have the strength to maneuver a computer mouse, but when a nurse propped her boyfriend’s iPad within reach in …
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Sugata Mitra shows how kids teach themselves
http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swfIn this talk Sugata Mitra demonstrates that children have the capacity to teach themselves how to use computers, in even the most rural and disadvantaged towns in India. One of the key points he makes in this presentation is that children are naturally motivated to learn. So imagine if these kids had better teachers, better …
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