Boston Book Festival

October 17-19, 2013

2011 Event Descriptions

Learning Learning

4:30pm Back Bay Events Center John Hancock Hall 180 Berkeley Street

Hear some creative and provocative ideas about education that focus more on learning than teaching. Nicholas Negroponte, founder of One Laptop per Child, will talk about a new tablet-based experiment to determine whether children can teach themselves to read. Sugata Mitra, whose Hole in the Wall project inspired Slumdog Millionaire, discusses his research on how children self-organize to learn. Idit Harel Caperton demonstrates how under-privileged kids learn by developing their own computer games. Hosted by the president of the Pearson Foundation, Mark Nieker. Sponsored by the Pearson Foundation. 

Learning Learning session audio