New experiments in self teaching, Sugata Mitra

Indian education scientist Sugata Mitra tackles one of the greatest problems of education the best teachers and schools don t exist where they re needed most. In a series of reallife experiments from New Delhi to South Africa to Italy, he gave kids selfsupervised access to the web and saw results that could revolutionize how we think about teaching. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world s leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on at Watch a highlight reel of the Top 10 TEDTalks at