About the deciduous forests of Western Siberia
It so happened that in my home most of the West Siberian forests - small-leaved, consisting of birch and aspen. On the one hand, I like the birch forest. They are light and spacious, they are inhabited by a huge number of birds. In the birch forests lot of mushrooms and berries, which provide food for both people and animals.
But the birch does not give any fruit, nuts or acorns. Moreover, the maximum lifetime of a birch - only about a hundred years. In such a short period of birch does not have time to turn into a huge, dumpy, hollow tree and die ignominiously from the wind and rot. Therefore, age-old birch forests does not happen. And if there is no old-growth forests - that is not related tales and myths. In England there is Sherwood, Germany - Black Forest, in the Irtysh there is nothing (with apologies to singer Artynskogo boron comrade sibariana).
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Sugata Mitra (born 12 February 1952) is an Indian computer scientist and educational theorist. He is best known for his "Hole in the Wall" experiment, and widely cited in works on literacy and education. He is Professor Emeritus at NIIT University, Rajasthan, India. A Ph.D. in theoretical physics, he retired in 2019 as Professor of Educational Technology at Newcastle University in England, after 13 years there including a year in 2012 as Visiting Professor at MIT MediaLab in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. He won the TED Prize 2013.
After earning a PhD in Solid State Physics from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi, during which time he published several papers on organic semiconductors, he went on to research battery technology at the Centre for Energy Studies in the IIT, and later at the Technische Universität, Vienna. He published a paper on a zinc-chlorine battery and a speculative paper on why the human sense organs are located where they are.
He then worked setting up networked computers and created the "Yellow Pages" industry in India and Bangladesh.
Mitra's work at NIIT created the first curricula and pedagogy for that organisation, followed by years of research on learning styles, learning devices, several of them now patented, multimedia and new methods of learning. Since the 1970s, Professor Mitra's publications and work has resulted in training and development of perhaps a million young Indians, amongst them some of the poorest children in the world. Some of this work culminated in an interest in early literacy, and the Hole in the Wall experiments.
