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1. Sometime in 1991, a chief scientist at the NIIT, named, started an experiment hole in a wall.
Dr. Sugata Mitra
India
http://www.hole-in-the-wall.com/Beginnings.html
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2. What does NIIT stands for?
National Institute of Information Technology
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?
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.
India
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugata_Mitra
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4. What was the significant finding of the experiment?
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
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?
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.
India
https://www.edutopia.org/blog/self-organized-learning-sugata-mitra
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