Teacherless Teaching Tools
Professor Sugatra Mitra, famous for installing a computer in a Delhi slum in what became known as the Hole-in-the-wall experiment, said at a conference that children with access to the internet could learn most things by themselves.
Renowned U.S. futurist Dr Thomas Frey has spoken of the “new frontier” of a teacher-less education system and predicted that within a decade there would be a fundamental shift away from teachers as imparters of knowledge to teachers as coaches.
Nothing could be as valuable to a student as a wonderful teacher, however with or without this gift, we should all have the goal of students directing their own learning.
