http://www.ted.com/talks/sugata_mitra_the_child_driven_education#t-461476
Sugata Mitra is a teacher that wanted to do an experiment for education. He began in New Deli and expanded all over India and throughout the world. This experiment changed education.
Sugata realized good teachers don't want to go to places that are actually in need of them. Sugata in-bedded a computer into a wall in a slum in New Deli. The kids in the area couldn't read nor speak any English, they also had no clue what the internet was. The computers were about three feet tall. Within the first few weeks of the computers being there he learned that "children will learn what they want to learn". The first shock in the experiment was the children would teach others how to browse and they started making their own music and playing it back just within 4 hours of the computers being there. The children were teaching each other entirely alone. After this success Sugata decided to give a computer to a group of kids in an Indian Village that spoke English with a strong accent. The kids would speak into the computer and the computer would translate it into gibberish. Sugata told them to make the computer understand them and left the computer there for 2 months. Since he set the computer to a British accent when he returned the kids had learned fluent English in a very strong British accent. These experiments changed education.
This video is very interesting. These kids did better with a computer than they did with a teacher. These computers changed the ways these kids would think and made a huge impact in these small villages. "If the children had interest then education would happen" said Sugata, and that's exactly what happened. The kids learned how to send emails and within two years they started googling their homework. The teachers said their vocab immediately increased after that. This shows that children themselves have the ability to use a computer for a driven education. They taught themselves bio-technology and English through a computer. In education alone computers have became a huge role in education after these experiments.
In conclusion, Sugata made this idea of a computer in education viral throughout the world. This video really shows the complexity of computers but even a young, brittle mind can figure them out and learn from them.