Monday 6 August 2018

SCAVENGER HUNT-CHALLENGE 1

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1. Sometime in 1991, a chief scientist at the NIIT, named, started an experiment hole in a wall.
Sugata Mitra
India
From a Businessweek Online Daily Briefing,
March 2, 2000.
Edited by Paul Judge

2. What does NIIT stands for?
National Institute of Information Technology
India
Acronym Finder
3. His team carved a hole in the wall that separated NIIT campuses from slum areas. Why did they carve hole in the wall?
Dr. Mitra's team carved a "hole in the wall" that separated the NIIT premises from the adjoining slum in Kalkaji, New Delhi. Through this hole, a freely accessible computer was put up for use.
Kalkaji, new Delhi ;
India
Hole-in-the-Wall Education Project 2016
4. What was the significant finding of the experiment?
The significant which have been uniformly encouraging, show that children learn to operate as well as play with the computer with minimum intervention. They picked up skills and tasks by constructing their own learning environment. 
India
Hole-in-the-Wall Education Limited 2015
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?
This study aims to investigate the effectiveness of their findings.
India

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