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用“云”建一所未来学校 　　本文作者苏伽特·米特拉是英国纽卡斯尔大学教育、交流和语言科学学院的一位教育技术教授。他因自己的教育实验——“墙中洞”，而为人所熟识。他是NIIT（National Institute of Information Technology，印度国家信息技术学院）荣誉退休的首席科学家，并凭借“墙中洞”实验项目成为2013年TED大奖的获得者。TED是“Technology， Entertainment， Design”的缩写，是美国一家私有非营利机构，该机构以其组织的TED演讲大会而闻名，会议宗旨为“用思想的力量来改变世界”。 TED大奖设立于2005年，每年的三位获奖者除了得到十万美金外，还有机会在TED会议上公开阐述自己的TED愿望，而TED的组织者将竭尽全力帮助其实现愿望。 　　What is going to be the future of learning？ The kind of learning we do in schools today originated about 300 years ago， from “The British Empire”. Imagine trying to run the entire planet， without computers， without telephones， using handwritten pieces of paper， traveling by ships. But 1）the Victorians actually created a global computer made up of people. They made another machine to produce those people： the school. Schools produced people who 2）were identical to each other. They engineered a system so robust that its still with us today， continuously producing identical people for a machine that no longer exists. How is present-day schooling going to prepare children for the future？ 　　Well， I 3）bumped into this whole thing completely by accident... 　　I used to teach people how to write computer programs in New Delhi. Right next to where I used to work， there was a slum with many orphaned children. We also had some rich parents with computers， who used to tell me about how gifted their children are. I suddenly figured that， How come all rich people have these extraordinarily gifted children？ What did the poor do wrong？ 　　I soon made a hole in the boundary wall of that 4）slum， and stuck a computer inside just to see what would happen. All the children came running in. They said， “What is this？ Can we touch it？”I said， “If you wish to...” Then I went away， and eight hours later， found them browsing and teaching each other how to browse. My colleagues said， “One of your students must have showed them how to use the mouse.” So I repeated the experiment， this time 300 miles out of Delhi， in a remote village， where