Just to keep you all in the loop, do check the new blogpost by Donald Clark on Sugata Mitra, a quote:
“At the E-learning Africa Conference, where I gave a keynote, workshop and debate contribution, I met practitioner after practitioner who welcomed by more sober view of the project. They too were skeptical as all the evidence they had suggested that teacher involvement was vital. Person after person shook my hand saying how glad they were that someone was standing up to the hype.”
Do check earlier posts:
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