NRI Wins $1 Mn TED Prize for Delhi Slum Education Project


Washington: A "hole in the wall" experiment in a Delhi slum, demonstrating how children collectively can teach themselves complex issues, has won educator Sugata Mitra the first one million dollar 2013 TED Prize.

Mitra, an education technology professor at Newcastle University in the United Kingdom, said he will use the prize, awarded by TED, an annual global ideas conference, to launch a global initiative for self-directed learning that builds on his discovery.

"My wish is to help design the future of learning by supporting children all over the world to tap into their innate sense of wonder and work together," he said in his acceptance speech  at the TED 2013 conference in Long Beach, California.

"Help me build the School in the Cloud, a learning lab in India, where children can embark on intellectual adventures by engaging and connecting with information and mentoring online," Mitra said outlining his plan to build a child-driven virtual school.

"I also invite you, wherever you are, to create your own miniature child-driven learning environments and share your discoveries," he said asking the global TED community to make his dream a reality with Self-Organized Learning Environments (SOLEs) in homes, schools, and community programmes worldwide.

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Source: IANS