<div>Hi Sameer, </div> <div> </div> <div>You might be interested in his blog (which reveals interesting facets of his personality) that is if you haven't seen it already:</div> <div> </div> <div><a href="http://sugatam.blogspot.com/">http://sugatam.blogspot.com/</a></div> <div> </div> <div>regards,</div> <div> </div> <div>rakesh<br><br> </div> <div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/14/09, <b class="gmail_sendername">Sameer Verma</b> <<a href="mailto:sverma@sfsu.edu">sverma@sfsu.edu</a>> wrote:</span> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Just saw Sugata Mitra's talk at Lift (<a href="http://liftconference.com/">http://liftconference.com/</a>) on<br> the hole-in-the-wall experiment and the data they collected. Most<br>impressive was the concept of self-organized learning that happened in<br>these places. <a href="http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/sugata_mitra_shows_how_kids_teach_themselves.html">http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/sugata_mitra_shows_how_kids_teach_themselves.html</a><br> It goes against all the talk about teacher training, etc.<br><br>Sameer<br>--<br>Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D.<br>Associate Professor of Information Systems<br>San Francisco State University<br>San Francisco CA 94132 USA<br><a href="http://verma.sfsu.edu/">http://verma.sfsu.edu/</a><br> <a href="http://opensource.sfsu.edu/">http://opensource.sfsu.edu/</a><br>_______________________________________________<br>IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)<br><a href="mailto:IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org">IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org</a><br> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep</a><br></blockquote></div><br>