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Dialogue: 0,0:00:10.47,0:00:13.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The last time I stood
Dialogue: 0,0:00:13.35,0:00:16.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on a TED main stage
Dialogue: 0,0:00:17.74,0:00:21.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was in February, 2013.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:23.62,0:00:26.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was in Long Beach, California.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:29.73,0:00:33.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,TED gave me their prize\Nat that point in time,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:33.30,0:00:34.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a million dollars.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:35.67,0:00:37.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I thought they would put it\Nin my bank account,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:37.55,0:00:39.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but they didn't, actually.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:39.56,0:00:41.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:41.03,0:00:43.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They gave it to the university.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:43.69,0:00:48.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But anyhow, here I am again\Non a TED main stage.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:50.78,0:00:52.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I spent the million dollars.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:53.07,0:00:54.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.36,0:00:57.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'll tell you what happened next.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:58.21,0:01:00.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I thought I'll give you a report
Dialogue: 0,0:01:00.26,0:01:04.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on what I did with the money,\Nand where we are at this point in time.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:04.34,0:01:06.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not all gone;\Nthere's just a little bit left.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:06.78,0:01:08.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.82,0:01:16.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When TED gave me the prize, they also gave\Nanother prize, a smaller one,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.37,0:01:23.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to Sundance Institute to make\Na documentary on the whole project.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.72,0:01:26.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The documentary will be called\N"The School in the Cloud."
Dialogue: 0,0:01:27.28,0:01:30.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At the moment,\Nthe documentary is not finished,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:31.30,0:01:33.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I got hold of a trailer
Dialogue: 0,0:01:33.80,0:01:36.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I thought\Nyou might enjoy watching that.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.84,0:01:43.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Video) Sugata Mitra:\NWhat is the future of learning?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:44.66,0:01:49.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Could it be that we are heading\Ntowards or maybe in a future
Dialogue: 0,0:01:49.65,0:01:52.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when knowing is obsolete?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:52.70,0:01:56.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Could it be that we don't need\Nto go to school at all?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.00,0:02:00.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Could it be that at the point in time\Nwhen you need to know something,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:00.41,0:02:02.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you can find it out in two minutes?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:02.96,0:02:04.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[In 2013, Sugata Mitra asked TED
Dialogue: 0,0:02:04.93,0:02:07.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to help him discover\Nthe future of learning.]
Dialogue: 0,0:02:08.57,0:02:11.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My wish is to build a facility
Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.14,0:02:15.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where children go on\Nthese intellectual adventures
Dialogue: 0,0:02:15.79,0:02:19.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,driven by the big questions\Nwhich their mediators put in.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:19.74,0:02:22.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a facility\Nwhich is practically unmanned;
Dialogue: 0,0:02:22.26,0:02:24.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it will be called the School in the Cloud.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:29.40,0:02:32.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Woman: (Hindi) We really want him\Nto become an educated person,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:32.46,0:02:35.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it's difficult\Nbecause of the state of the school.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:35.17,0:02:36.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Former primary school, Korakati]
Dialogue: 0,0:02:36.86,0:02:39.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Good teachers don’t go to remote places.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.12,0:02:42.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The remoter you get,\Nthe worse primary education becomes.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:42.79,0:02:45.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Sugata has chosen sites\Nfor the project in rural India...
Dialogue: 0,0:02:45.54,0:02:47.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...and in northeast England.]
Dialogue: 0,0:02:47.16,0:02:50.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't know how to build\Na "School in the Cloud"
Dialogue: 0,0:02:50.44,0:02:52.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I have never built one.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:53.54,0:02:55.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, I'm trying to figure out a design
Dialogue: 0,0:02:55.82,0:02:59.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which, really speaking, belongs\Nto children and is run by children.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:59.48,0:03:02.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, that's what's going on;\Nit's a great big experiment.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:05.71,0:03:08.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Schools as we know them now are outdated.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:09.56,0:03:11.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Teacher: As soon as I started doing it
Dialogue: 0,0:03:11.44,0:03:13.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and seeing the buzz\Nand the enjoyment of the kids,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:13.93,0:03:17.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it made me look at my lessons differently,\Nand the role of a teacher differently.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:17.94,0:03:21.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Less talking at the front\Nand more handing it over to the children.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:23.60,0:03:25.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Girl: I really like it\Nbecause it's independent,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:25.94,0:03:27.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you get to work with your friends.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:27.93,0:03:31.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,SM: Korakati may or may not be different\Nfrom the schools of England,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:31.34,0:03:33.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but that's what we are going to look for.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:33.79,0:03:36.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The idea is to have\Na complete glass front
Dialogue: 0,0:03:37.00,0:03:38.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to a building here
Dialogue: 0,0:03:38.44,0:03:40.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and a large screen for a full size
Dialogue: 0,0:03:40.76,0:03:43.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Skyped-in mediator.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:43.44,0:03:46.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Boy: Teachers will teach us from London\Nusing the Internet.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:50.93,0:03:53.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Woman: All I ever really wanted\Nto know about computers
Dialogue: 0,0:03:53.82,0:03:55.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was how to turn them off.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:56.71,0:03:57.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hi!
Dialogue: 0,0:03:57.86,0:03:59.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hello Raveen. Hello [unclear].
Dialogue: 0,0:03:59.86,0:04:01.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How nice to see you.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:02.12,0:04:03.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Look what I made.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:03.66,0:04:06.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Can you see what this is?\NWhoo!
Dialogue: 0,0:04:06.25,0:04:07.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:04:07.89,0:04:09.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Boy: English is spoken everywhere.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:09.59,0:04:13.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If I learn it from childhood,\Nthen when I grow up
Dialogue: 0,0:04:15.63,0:04:17.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Woman: You help a child to the point
Dialogue: 0,0:04:17.39,0:04:19.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where if he wants to know something
Dialogue: 0,0:04:19.23,0:04:22.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he knows where to look for it,\Nand how to look for it.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:22.00,0:04:25.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,SM: More affluent children have people\Nwho will help them to learn anyway.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:25.71,0:04:27.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it's children in desolate areas
Dialogue: 0,0:04:27.86,0:04:30.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who really desperately need\Nto know how to learn,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:31.59,0:04:33.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I know that the Internet does that.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:34.08,0:04:37.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Learning itself is actually\Nan emergent phenomenon
Dialogue: 0,0:04:37.43,0:04:39.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like a hive or a thunderstorm.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:39.77,0:04:43.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not about making learning happen;\Nit's about letting it happen.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:44.34,0:04:46.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[School in the cloud]
Dialogue: 0,0:04:46.72,0:04:48.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:04:59.56,0:05:01.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I made a project.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:02.44,0:05:03.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I made a project for TED.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:03.76,0:05:07.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The way it works is that they tell you\Nwhat to do with the money if you get it.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:08.96,0:05:10.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I made out a project.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:10.63,0:05:14.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The project was that I would build\Nseven laboratories.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:16.22,0:05:18.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Seven learning laboratories.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:18.76,0:05:23.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Five of them would be in India,\Nand two would be in England.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:25.05,0:05:26.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What sort of labs?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:26.91,0:05:31.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, for that, you need to know\Nwhat happened before
Dialogue: 0,0:05:31.10,0:05:32.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which I won't go over,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:32.78,0:05:36.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but what happened in the 15 years\Nbefore the TED prize
Dialogue: 0,0:05:37.75,0:05:41.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was that I was able to figure out\Nsomething which all of you know
Dialogue: 0,0:05:41.63,0:05:44.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and all of you figure out\Nfor yourselves in 2 minutes.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:44.98,0:05:48.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Which is that if you have a question
Dialogue: 0,0:05:49.17,0:05:52.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you no longer need to ask\Na human being for an answer.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:54.27,0:05:57.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is something out there\Nwhich can tell you what the answer is.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:58.70,0:06:00.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What is it out there?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:01.06,0:06:03.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Internet of course,\Nwe call it the Cloud.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:04.87,0:06:07.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To me it's the first non human,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:09.74,0:06:12.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,conscious and intelligent entity
Dialogue: 0,0:06:12.90,0:06:14.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we have encountered.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:15.10,0:06:19.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We always thought that aliens\Nwill land from other planets
Dialogue: 0,0:06:20.15,0:06:23.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they will be green with long legs\Nand round eyes.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:24.74,0:06:26.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It turned out\Nit was not going to be like that.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:28.48,0:06:32.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The alien entity is made up\Nof four billion people,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:33.38,0:06:36.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it is not a person, it's a thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:38.42,0:06:42.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can ask that thing anything,\Nand it tells you what you want to know.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:43.67,0:06:47.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Given that situation,\Nwhat happens to children and education?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:50.57,0:06:52.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are reports\Nfrom all around the world
Dialogue: 0,0:06:52.69,0:06:56.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that children are not asking\Nquestions to people.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:57.47,0:07:00.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or at least if they have to ask\Na question to a person,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:00.25,0:07:02.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they do that after they've asked\Ntheir phones.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:05.12,0:07:09.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Children don't want to learn\Nhow to multiply, divide, add and subtract.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:10.65,0:07:13.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because they say they already know\Nhow to do that.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:13.96,0:07:16.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's done with phones.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:16.96,0:07:21.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Children don't want\Nparticularly to learn to read
Dialogue: 0,0:07:22.49,0:07:26.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because they say there are things\Nthat can read out things to them,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:27.55,0:07:29.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even if they don't know how to read.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:31.22,0:07:34.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At the moment,\Nthey don't like to write by hand
Dialogue: 0,0:07:34.74,0:07:36.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because they want to know
Dialogue: 0,0:07:36.37,0:07:38.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,why they should learn\Nhow to write by hand.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:38.97,0:07:41.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Will they ever do it\Nin the rest of their lives?
Dialogue: 0,0:07:42.50,0:07:46.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, what happens in a world\Nwhere reading, writing and arithmetic
Dialogue: 0,0:07:46.41,0:07:49.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are treated in such a cavalier manner?
Dialogue: 0,0:07:51.28,0:07:53.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wanted to experiment with that world.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:54.77,0:07:59.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The idea was to create facilities\Nfor children, which have the Internet,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:00.93,0:08:03.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the children can go in\Nand do what they like
Dialogue: 0,0:08:03.96,0:08:07.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,without any supervision,\Nor without any teachers.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:09.18,0:08:11.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We could have presence there
Dialogue: 0,0:08:11.97,0:08:15.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it would come out of the Internet\Nover Skype, from somewhere,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:16.26,0:08:17.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if the children wanted to.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:18.60,0:08:22.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I work with children in the age group\Nof about 8 to 13 years old.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:25.29,0:08:28.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They love speaking to adults over Skype,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:31.59,0:08:35.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,particularly adults who are retired\Nschool teachers and people like that.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:37.29,0:08:38.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I asked them,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:39.62,0:08:41.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Why do you like this so much?\NDo you like it?"
Dialogue: 0,0:08:41.95,0:08:43.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Yes, we love it."
Dialogue: 0,0:08:43.55,0:08:45.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Why do you like this so much?"
Dialogue: 0,0:08:45.63,0:08:48.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They said, "You know what?\NWe can switch them off."
Dialogue: 0,0:08:48.47,0:08:50.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:08:55.61,0:08:58.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What I did after February, 2013
Dialogue: 0,0:08:59.54,0:09:03.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was to first look for places,\Nand then start building.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:05.63,0:09:10.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The seven labs are built to cover\Nfrom the really remote areas,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:13.94,0:09:15.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,such as areas
Dialogue: 0,0:09:16.25,0:09:20.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,without electricity, without healthcare,\Nwithout schooling,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:21.51,0:09:23.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,nothing really, just the wild,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:24.98,0:09:27.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,through to middle class England
Dialogue: 0,0:09:27.98,0:09:30.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and all the ones in between.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:31.70,0:09:34.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, the seven have all been built now;
Dialogue: 0,0:09:34.77,0:09:38.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I finished opening the last one\Njust this month.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:39.07,0:09:40.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The very first one
Dialogue: 0,0:09:40.38,0:09:43.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was opened in November, 2013
Dialogue: 0,0:09:47.62,0:09:49.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the same year that I got the prize.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:49.91,0:09:52.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see over there, a picture of that lab.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:53.40,0:09:56.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's in a town called\NKillingworth, England.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:56.67,0:09:59.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's actually situated inside a school.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:59.73,0:10:02.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The school is called\NGeorge Stephenson High School.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:03.51,0:10:05.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's very close\Nto George Stephenson's home,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:05.90,0:10:09.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you know the guy who built\Nthe first working steam engine.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:11.05,0:10:12.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In Killingworth
Dialogue: 0,0:10:14.98,0:10:16.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- this is a room -
Dialogue: 0,0:10:17.21,0:10:21.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it just looks like a nice lounge\Nwith computers and an Xbox.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:27.92,0:10:29.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The teachers when I built it said,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:29.97,0:10:32.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Sugata, this is a bit too much.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:32.07,0:10:35.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you have any idea of what\Nthey're going to do with that Xbox?
Dialogue: 0,0:10:35.54,0:10:38.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They are going to do nothing else,\Nexcept play with the Xbox."
Dialogue: 0,0:10:39.75,0:10:42.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I said,\N"That's our challenge, isn't it?"
Dialogue: 0,0:10:42.17,0:10:45.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you have gone in there\Nto teach geography
Dialogue: 0,0:10:45.62,0:10:47.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and students are playing with the Xbox,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:48.65,0:10:52.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it means geography\Nis more boring than the Xbox.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:53.40,0:10:57.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then, we should really look at geography\Nand chuck it from the curriculum
Dialogue: 0,0:10:58.06,0:11:00.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or put it into the Xbox somehow.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:01.92,0:11:05.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can't tell the children:\N"We will take away your Xbox
Dialogue: 0,0:11:06.05,0:11:09.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and put you into school\Nto do other things."
Dialogue: 0,0:11:12.02,0:11:16.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's not the right way to engage\Nchildren's attention.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:17.04,0:11:19.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So here is a picture\Nof what happens in there.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:20.22,0:11:23.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As you can see\Nthere are five children in the corner
Dialogue: 0,0:11:23.10,0:11:25.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,researching something or the other,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:25.09,0:11:27.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and there is one on the Xbox.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:27.25,0:11:30.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you give them something\Ninteresting enough to do,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:30.23,0:11:33.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they don't, actually\Nplay Xbox all the time;
Dialogue: 0,0:11:34.00,0:11:36.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,\Nit was our misconception.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:37.80,0:11:39.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here is more of Killingworth.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:39.90,0:11:43.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What they do in there is called\Nthe self-organized learning environment.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:44.82,0:11:49.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's very simple, take five computers\Nand take twenty children.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:50.45,0:11:54.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Put them in there; ask them a question.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:54.71,0:11:57.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The question has to be an interesting one,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:59.05,0:12:00.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what we call a "Big Question."
Dialogue: 0,0:12:02.05,0:12:03.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What's a big question?
Dialogue: 0,0:12:05.00,0:12:09.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It can be all kinds,\Nbut let me give you an example:
Dialogue: 0,0:12:12.85,0:12:17.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A big question could be,\N"Can trees think?"
Dialogue: 0,0:12:21.10,0:12:25.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you give that question to children,\Nthey first will mutter with each other,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:25.95,0:12:28.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Trees, they can't."\N"Maybe they can." "I don't know."
Dialogue: 0,0:12:28.95,0:12:31.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then you just leave them alone\Nand you say,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:31.53,0:12:35.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“I don’t know the answer either,\Nbut why don't we look for it? "
Dialogue: 0,0:12:36.16,0:12:39.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this will happen,\Nwhat you see on the screen.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:40.18,0:12:43.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,About 30 or 40 minutes later\Nthey will come back to you,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:44.74,0:12:47.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not with childish observations;
Dialogue: 0,0:12:49.12,0:12:51.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they will come back\Nwith the nature of thought,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:51.98,0:12:54.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with the latest advances in biology, etc.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:55.60,0:12:59.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's called the self-organized\Nlearning environment.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:59.83,0:13:02.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here is one that we did\Nin Kalkaji, New Delhi.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:05.06,0:13:09.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It has on the wall a Skyped-in mediator\Nas you can see, and it's a girls school.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:12.69,0:13:15.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The girls couldn't speak\Nany English, to start with.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:15.34,0:13:18.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We opened it in February, 2014.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:21.18,0:13:23.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I put in a team of observers
Dialogue: 0,0:13:24.48,0:13:27.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to measure their\Nbeginning levels of English,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:28.26,0:13:30.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which was close to zero, and then I said,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:30.28,0:13:33.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"We will measure every two months or so."
Dialogue: 0,0:13:35.15,0:13:36.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After about three days,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:36.82,0:13:40.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was talking to this mediator\Nthat you see on the screen, over Skype,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:41.73,0:13:44.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was asking,\N"How is it going there?"
Dialogue: 0,0:13:44.41,0:13:46.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She said, "Very nice.\NThose girls are really nice.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:46.74,0:13:50.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One of them said to me,\N'When are you coming next?' "
Dialogue: 0,0:13:50.85,0:13:53.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I said, "In what language\Ndid she say that?"
Dialogue: 0,0:13:54.58,0:13:56.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The mediator said, "In English."
Dialogue: 0,0:13:58.97,0:14:03.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I sent my research team in\Nafter a month to measure the level,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:04.64,0:14:08.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she reported that was too late;\Nit's done already.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:08.82,0:14:10.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've never seen anything\Nhappen so quickly,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:10.100,0:14:13.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so I went to Delhi to ask the girls.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:13.19,0:14:16.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I said, "How did you do that so fast?"
Dialogue: 0,0:14:16.66,0:14:19.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They gave me an answer\Nwhich was quite astonishing.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:19.77,0:14:22.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They said, "You know that woman\Nwho comes on the TV screen?
Dialogue: 0,0:14:22.77,0:14:25.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She doesn't understand\Nanything other than English."
Dialogue: 0,0:14:25.81,0:14:27.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:14:27.91,0:14:29.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's as simple as that.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:32.18,0:14:35.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is a little town called\NNewton Aycliffe in England.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:37.13,0:14:40.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you remember the map,\Nit's in Northeast.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:41.57,0:14:43.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This school is called Greenfields,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:44.54,0:14:47.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we have a School in the Cloud there.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:48.37,0:14:52.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What they have done is\Nthey made one of their walls glass.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:53.55,0:14:58.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On the other side, is a typical\NEnglish green country side.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:00.50,0:15:04.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Inside they put in astro turf,\Nso when you enter the room
Dialogue: 0,0:15:04.19,0:15:06.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,suddenly you feel as though\Nyou are outside
Dialogue: 0,0:15:06.73,0:15:08.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because of the turf merging in.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:08.81,0:15:12.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They put park benches, gas lamps,\Nand things like that
Dialogue: 0,0:15:13.68,0:15:16.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and a few computers scattered in there.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:17.98,0:15:23.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, the children come into the room,\Nand when you leave them alone -
Dialogue: 0,0:15:23.80,0:15:26.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when you do self-organized\Nlearning environment,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:26.74,0:15:30.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you, the teachers,\Ndon't stay there; you go out -
Dialogue: 0,0:15:30.59,0:15:33.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so, you start the session, and you go out,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:33.81,0:15:37.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and from the other side\Nwhich is also glass you can observe them.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:40.73,0:15:43.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Once, very recently in Greenfields,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:43.82,0:15:48.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a group of 8 year olds were sent\Ninto the room by their teacher,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:49.81,0:15:53.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the teacher said -\Nwe often do this in SOLEs -
Dialogue: 0,0:15:53.08,0:15:54.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we say to the children,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:54.51,0:15:56.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"For the next 45 minutes,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:56.84,0:15:59.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I can't talk to you,\Nyou can't talk to me."
Dialogue: 0,0:15:59.84,0:16:01.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is no communication.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:01.74,0:16:05.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You are on your own,\Nand there is the big question.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:05.55,0:16:07.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, she did that.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:08.26,0:16:12.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These 8 year olds were doing things.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:14.02,0:16:16.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After a while - remember what she said?
Dialogue: 0,0:16:16.24,0:16:18.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"You can't talk to me,\Nand I can't talk to you."
Dialogue: 0,0:16:19.02,0:16:22.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After a little while one of them\Ncame up to the glass window,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:22.43,0:16:28.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he had a piece of paper in his hand,\Nand he held it up, on it were the words
Dialogue: 0,0:16:28.15,0:16:29.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Help! We are stuck."
Dialogue: 0,0:16:30.27,0:16:31.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:16:33.91,0:16:36.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She didn't say,\N"You can't communicate with me,"
Dialogue: 0,0:16:36.53,0:16:39.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she said, "You can't talk to me."
Dialogue: 0,0:16:39.53,0:16:41.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I thought that was clever thinking.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:43.50,0:16:45.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here is another view of Greenfields.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:47.64,0:16:48.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Another one.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:50.06,0:16:52.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Chandrakona in Bengal,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:53.68,0:16:55.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's a pretty remote area.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:57.25,0:17:00.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you can think of the map of India
Dialogue: 0,0:17:00.81,0:17:05.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,think of the eastern side,\Nthe side close to Burma and Thailand.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:07.84,0:17:10.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is somewhere there.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:11.74,0:17:14.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In Chandrakona we have this structure
Dialogue: 0,0:17:16.40,0:17:18.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we built a School in the Cloud.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:19.40,0:17:23.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The parents came there;\Nthey are all farmers and they said,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:23.92,0:17:25.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"What are we supposed to do here?"
Dialogue: 0,0:17:25.86,0:17:28.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I said, "You are supposed\Nto send your children here."
Dialogue: 0,0:17:28.60,0:17:30.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They said, "What for?"
Dialogue: 0,0:17:30.88,0:17:33.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I said, "They learn things here."
Dialogue: 0,0:17:34.50,0:17:38.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They pointed to the computers and said,\N"From those TV screens?"
Dialogue: 0,0:17:38.40,0:17:41.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I said, "They are not TVs,\Nthey are computers".
Dialogue: 0,0:17:41.62,0:17:44.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they said,\N"Well, isn't that the same thing?"
Dialogue: 0,0:17:44.18,0:17:46.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I said, "No, not quite"
Dialogue: 0,0:17:46.84,0:17:50.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They said, "Who will teach them?"
Dialogue: 0,0:17:50.74,0:17:53.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I said, "They will teach themselves".
Dialogue: 0,0:17:53.94,0:17:57.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"How can they?"\NI said, "They will use the Internet."
Dialogue: 0,0:17:58.20,0:18:00.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"What's the Internet?"
Dialogue: 0,0:18:01.96,0:18:03.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Where do you go from there?
Dialogue: 0,0:18:06.46,0:18:08.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is what it looks like inside.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:09.26,0:18:12.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you can see it,\Nyou will see it at the far end
Dialogue: 0,0:18:14.56,0:18:18.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,an Australian gentleman\Nwho talks to the children.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:19.68,0:18:22.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I hate to think\Nwhat will happen to their accents,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:22.94,0:18:25.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but otherwise they love him.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:25.06,0:18:26.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:18:27.45,0:18:30.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In Chandrakona, three months later
Dialogue: 0,0:18:31.99,0:18:35.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there's a tall, slim, young girl there.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:39.78,0:18:43.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have visited the place and she said,\N"We really love this place."
Dialogue: 0,0:18:43.25,0:18:44.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I said, "For what?"
Dialogue: 0,0:18:45.80,0:18:48.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She said, "You can find out\Nall sorts of things here."
Dialogue: 0,0:18:49.46,0:18:52.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I said, "Like what?\NWhat are you finding out today?"
Dialogue: 0,0:18:52.32,0:18:56.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She said, "We were taught in school\Nthat plants are green
Dialogue: 0,0:18:58.72,0:19:00.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because they have chlorophyll.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:00.82,0:19:05.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they have chlorophyll\Nto process light in order to make energy.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:07.36,0:19:09.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've come here to find out
Dialogue: 0,0:19:09.66,0:19:14.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,why chlorophyll has to be green\Nand not blue, yellow or red.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:16.100,0:19:18.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you know?"
Dialogue: 0,0:19:18.75,0:19:23.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I said, "No, I have no idea\Nwhy it has to be green."
Dialogue: 0,0:19:24.19,0:19:26.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She said, "Ok, we will figure it out."
Dialogue: 0,0:19:28.75,0:19:29.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Three months.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:31.61,0:19:33.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's a view of the inside again.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:34.77,0:19:39.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here is our most remote area;\Nit's called Korakati, also Eastern India;
Dialogue: 0,0:19:39.100,0:19:42.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's where the Ganges meets the sea.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:43.72,0:19:45.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It has nothing there;
Dialogue: 0,0:19:45.23,0:19:47.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there's no electricity,\Nno healthcare, no schools.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:48.67,0:19:51.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I won’t say nothing -\Nthey have Bengal tigers,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:52.09,0:19:53.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:19:53.95,0:19:57.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and hooded cobras and lots of children.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:00.47,0:20:03.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It took some building,\Nbut I built that one.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:03.58,0:20:07.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's solar powered, it has a tower\Nwhich is 45 ft high.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:09.25,0:20:10.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I couldn't get the Internet,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:10.91,0:20:14.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had a receiver and kept raising it\Non bamboo poles,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:14.41,0:20:19.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at 45 ft above ground,\Nwe now got 8 megabits per second 3G.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:22.50,0:20:26.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,3G met the stone age in there.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:29.74,0:20:32.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In Chandrakona,\Nthe sessions are intermittent
Dialogue: 0,0:20:32.89,0:20:35.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because of all sort of problems.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:36.97,0:20:40.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The cables run on the ground,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:40.75,0:20:44.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Internet cables that connect\Nall the computers together.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:44.42,0:20:47.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you have seen those cables,\Nthey are kind of cream colored.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:49.51,0:20:54.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had to remove them\Nand lift them up, somewhere,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:55.25,0:20:59.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because there is a very pale, thin snake
Dialogue: 0,0:21:00.33,0:21:05.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which can change its color to the color\Nof the Internet cable and sleeps there.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:08.26,0:21:10.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A bit of a strange problem,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:10.04,0:21:12.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you don't get these problems\Nin schools usually.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:12.79,0:21:14.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:21:16.48,0:21:18.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Internet comes and goes.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:20.17,0:21:22.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The children walk for three miles\Nto come to school
Dialogue: 0,0:21:23.18,0:21:25.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and find there is no Internet\Nand walk back three miles.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:26.47,0:21:28.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Naturally they are not\Nvery happy about it.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:29.48,0:21:31.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But in the middle of all this,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:32.22,0:21:37.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what they do is to find games,\Ndownload them and play them.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:39.63,0:21:42.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Somehow they are able\Nto get to that point.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:43.01,0:21:46.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I asked them what a web page was recently,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:47.98,0:21:50.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they thought for a while.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:50.46,0:21:54.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They said, "It's made\Nby someone who is not here,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:55.03,0:22:00.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,someone very far away who sends it\Nsomehow over those things
Dialogue: 0,0:22:01.09,0:22:04.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which look like the cream colored snakes."
Dialogue: 0,0:22:04.27,0:22:05.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:22:07.02,0:22:10.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the latest of the areas.\NI don't have a picture of it.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:10.14,0:22:12.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a hexagonal, our best structure.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:13.48,0:22:17.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In there, the studies are just beginning.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:19.11,0:22:23.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It took a lot of time to build,\Nand it cost close to a million dollars,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:24.40,0:22:26.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but there are a thousand children,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:27.75,0:22:31.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,thousand very interesting children\Nadded to the Cloud.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:33.51,0:22:34.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:35.04,0:22:37.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)