kolkata sugata mitras experiments with minimally invasive education are now an explosion of expanding belief in that path in 1999 when he installed an internetconnected computer on a wall in a delhi slum the educational scientists hole in the wall project threw up astonishing insights into childrens ability to learn without supervision over the years his belief has not just been buttressed but has spread worldwide here on his annual break from newcastle mitra will oversee the opening of another of his school in the cloud at gocharan in north 24parganas early next month itll be the third such learning station in the state and the fifth in the country where children given access to internet learn by raising and solving questions without classroom teachers some 3000 children are covered by the seven centres two are in england but in reality there are millions being allowed to do that if you take into account the number of teachers who are now encouraging minimally invasive education said mitra who pointed out how traditional classroom education is fast losing its relevance in the face of technological advances i am invited to the united states australia new zealand and even countries like trinidad tobago guatemala and colombia to talk on this and they are all convinced added the 62yearold who is making the most of the 1 million he is allowed to use as winner of the ted prize last february mitra pointed out that the children know how to organize themselves into groups to make the most of available computers and solve problems the collective effort enhancing the learning process by nature they are inquisitive when they solve things they just need to feel that sense of achievement he said as he pointed to the granny cloud programme launched in 2009 elderly persons many of them former teachers interact with the children over things like skype and it has had them learn english quicker the presence of a friendly mediator improves selforganised learning said mitra school in the cloud is still only a parallel movement but then signs suggest its the future of education