We are very pleased and honoured to have Sugata Mitra, Professor of Education Technology and a colleague, Dr.Pauline Dixon, coming to school on Thursday, 7th February, 2008 to work with Year Six.We hope it is the beginning of an important initiative with the main focus on development of our evaluation of the current and proposed 'Home-School' 'e-Learning Schemes.
Professor Mitra is a world famous scientist and advisor to the Indian Government. He is also an authority on developing cooperative learning.He is hoping to encourage use of the laptops by pupils to find solutions to problem-solving activities in Numeracy and Science.
To find out more about the experience of Professor Mitra and Dr. Dixon please follow the links below:
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/ecls/staff/profile/sugata.mitra
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/egwest/people/pauline.html