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Mar 2, 2016

"Seeing them take charge has really showed us that maybe we are being a little too rigid and structured, and not trusting our students enough." --Dora Bechtel

Messy Works: Self-Organized Learning in the Classroom

Sugata Mitra's "Hole in the Wall" experiment in self-organized learning has garnered a lot of attention since it first begun in 1999 and won a TED prize in 2013. It demonstrated that a group of students working together, motivated by a deep question and with access to a computer, could produce amazing results. But few self-organized learning environments exist in traditional education. Maybe it's time to change that...