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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
New Delhi,
India
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2. What does NIIT stands for?
National Institute of Information Technology
India
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3. It was implemented at a slum area in New Delhi.
Hole in the
Wall
Kalkaji, New Delhi
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4. 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. Through this hole, a freely accessible computer was put up for use. This computer proved to be an instant hit among the slum dwellers, especially the children.
Kalkaji, New Delhi
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5. What was the significant finding of the experiment?
With this, HiWEP is now poised to scale up the idea of Hole-in-the-Wall to make a significant contribution to improving elementary education and life skills of children across the world, especially those in disadvantaged communities in rural areas and urban slums.
New Delhi,
India
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6. 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.
New Delhi,
India
https://www.edutopia.org/blog/self-organized-learning-sugata-mitra
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