Both rewards and punishments induce a behavior pattern whereby we try to impress and curry favor with the person who hands them out. Whether we are looking to secure a reward or avoid a punishment is almost beside the point. Either way, what we don’t have is the sort of relationship that is defined by […]
Sugata Mitra: Self-organizing System
A self-organizing system is one where a structure appears without explicit intervention from the outside. Self-organizing systems also always show emergence, which is that the system starts to do things, which it was never designed for…education is a self-organizing system, where learning is an emergent phenomenon. – Sugata Mitra, from the TED talk The Child-Driven […]