Seventeen years of experiments with children’s education reveal startling results – children, in groups, can form ‘self-organising systems’ that result in emergent learning. The mechanism of this kind of learning seems similar to the appearance of spontaneous order, or ‘emergent phenomena’ in chaotic systems. From the slums of India, to the villages of India and Cambodia, to poor schools in Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, the USA and Italy, to the schools of Gateshead and the rich international schools of Washington and Hong Kong, Sugata’s experimental results show a strange new future for learning. Using the 2013 TED Prize, he has built seven ‘Schools in the Cloud’, where Self Organised Learning Environments (SOLEs) and a ‘Granny Cloud’ of mentors over the Internet, interact with unsupervised children. Sugata will present some of the preliminary findings of this project, offering glimpses of what schools should be for and what curricular, pedagogic and assessment changes will be required in the future.