A ‘provocation’ from Educationist and TEDx Speaker Sugata Mitra: In 1999, he had a provocative thought ~ ß “In nine months, a group of children left alone with a computer in any language will reach the same standard as an office secretary in the West.” To challenge this thought, Mitra and his colleagues dug a hole in a wall bordering an urban slum in New Delhi, installed an Internet-connected PC, and left it there (with a hidden camera filming the area). What they saw was kids from the slum playing around with the computer and in the process learning how to use it and how to go online, and then teaching each other. The "Hole in the Wall" project demonstrates that, even in the absence of any direct input from a teacher, an environment that stimulates curiosity can cause learning through self-instruction and peer-shared knowledge.
Posted on: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 04:58:21 +0000
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