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Start the Week: Technology in Education

Technology in Education

09/05/2016

BBC Radio 4 - Start the Week, Technology in Education

Andrew Marr on education with Sugata Mitra, Neil Selwyn, Tony Little and Lynsey Hanley.

Andrew Marr discusses class and technology in education with Sugata Mitra, Neil Selwyn, Tony Little and Lynsey Hanley.

On Start the Week Andrew Marr explores the use of technology in education. Professor Sugata Mitra has installed an internet-connected PC in a slum in India and watched how curiosity leads children to learn together. Digital technology is increasingly used in schools but the educationalist Neil Selwyn questions whether this is a positive step. The writer Lynsey Hanley looks at how class is embedded in the education system and the former Headmaster at Eton, Tony Little, on his vision for the future of schooling.
Producer: Katy Hickman.

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