I just watched this awesome video that Kristen Cardon found and published through Diigo. Sugata Mitra spends 17 minutes showing how kids in developing countries are teaching themselves via the internet. If you're the type that wants to bridge the gap and make things more equal, then watch this movie.
This video shows the internet to be the most powerful means of teaching children what they want to know. I think it validates Marshall McLuhan's idea that "the media is the message". Students around the globe are hearing the messages that interest them and if Sugata Mitra is right, then we really can change the whole world in a matter of years, in a single generation.
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