[senit] e-Inclusion seminars at King's College London

***apologies for any cross-posting***

e-Inclusion seminars – 2007-8

The Department for Education & Professional 
Studies at King’s College London is pleased to 
announce a new series of seminars, open to all.
(please let us know if you are coming – chris.abbott at kcl.ac.uk)

4th December 2007

Room B6, Waterloo Bridge Wing (see 
www.kcl.ac.uk/about/campuses/waterloo-det.html)

16.30 – 17.30 (refreshments available from 16.00)

Professor Sugata Mitra, University of Newcastle

Lessons from a hole in the wall

Sugata Mitra will explain the series of 
experiments with touch-screen computers in Indian 
villages that have led to worldwide interest and 
two documentaries. Starting with the placement of 
open access terminals in villages without 
education, Prof Mitra has gone on to develop and 
write about concepts of remoteness and minimally 
invasive education, and to bring his ideas to the north-east of England.

Sugata Mitra is Professor of Educational 
Technology in the School of Education, 
Communication and Language Sciences at Newcastle 
University. He has worked in the areas of 
Cognitive Science, Information Science and 
Educational Technology as well as on Physics and 
Energy for more than 30 years. His experiments 
(often referred to as "The Hole In The Wall" 
experiments) with children and the Internet have 
been reported worldwide since 1999. His current 
research interests include technologies for 
remote and rural education, distance education, 
instructional robotics, self organizing systems, 
and collaborative systems on the Internet. He is 
also Chief Scientist Emeritus, NIIT, India

www.ncl.ac.uk/ecls/staff/profile/sugata.mitra

Future seminars:

Thurs 6th March 2008
Dr Jane Seale (University of Southampton): 
Understanding e-Inclusion in the context of 
disabled learners in Higher Education

Summer Term 2008
Peter Zentel (Knowledge Media Research Centre, 
Tuebingen, Germany): Researching graphic symbol 
use by young people with learning disabilities

These seminars are run in conjunction with the 
new MA in e-Inclusion at King’s College London. 
If you would like details of this new Masters 
course, or would like to be removed from or added 
to the mailing list for e-Inclusion events, 
please contact chris.abbott at kcl.ac.uk

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Dr Chris Abbott
Reader in e-Inclusion
Department of Education & Professional Studies
King's College London
Franklin-Wilkins Building
London SE1 9NH
UK
Tel +44 (0)20 7848 3165
Fax +44 (0)20 7848 3182
Mobile +44 (0)7957 630953
chris.abbott at kcl.ac.uk
www.kcl.ac.uk/education/cabbott.html
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