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1. Sometime in
1991, a chief scientist at the NIIT, named, started an experiment hole in a
wall.
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Dr. Sugata Mitra
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http://www.hole-in-the-wall.com/Beginnings.html
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2. What does NIIT
stands for?
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National Institute of
Information Technology
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India |
https://www.acronymfinder.com/National-Institute-of-Information-Technology-(India)-(NIIT).html
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3. His team carved
a hole in the wall that separated NIIT campuses from slum areas. Why did they
carve hole in the wall?
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To put a freely accessible
computer to the slum people. The experiment aimed at
proving that children could be taught by computers very easily without any
formal training.
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India |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugata_Mitra
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4. What was the
significant finding of the experiment?
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What he discovered was that
the most avid users of the machine were ghetto kids aged 6 to 12, most of
whom have only the most rudimentary education and little knowledge of
English. Yet within days, the kids had taught themselves to draw on the
computer and to browse the Net. Some of the other things they learned, Mitra
says, astonished him
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India |
http://www.greenstar.org/butterflies/Hole-in-the-Wall.htm
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5. What could be the implications of this finding to existing teaching practices
especially those that are related with the use of ICT in learning?
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Local teachers and field observers noted that
the children demonstrated improvements in enrollment, attendance and
performance on school examinations, particularly in subjects that deal with
computing skills; English vocabulary and usage; concentration, attention span
and problem-solving skills; and working cooperatively and self-regulation.
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India |
https://www.edutopia.org/blog/self-organized-learning-sugata-mitra
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