zidouta.com » sugata mitra http://www.zidouta.com website van Herman van Iperen Mon, 24 Jan 2011 16:38:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 India. Hole in the Wall. http://www.zidouta.com/2007/02/08/india-hole-in-the-wall/ http://www.zidouta.com/2007/02/08/india-hole-in-the-wall/#comments Thu, 08 Feb 2007 14:39:35 +0000 HvI http://www.zidouta.com/2007/02/08/india-hole-in-the-wall/ Hole in the Wall Frontline: “Mitra decided to place a high-speed computer in the wall, connect it to the Internet, and watch who, if anyone, might use it. To his delight, curious children were immediately attracted to the strange new machine. “When they said, ‘Can we touch it?’” Mitra recalls, “I said, ‘It’s on your side of the wall.’ The rules say whatever is on their side, they can touch, so they touched it.”

Within minutes, children figured out how to point and click. By the end of the day they were browsing. “Given access and opportunity,” observes O’Connor, “the children quickly taught themselves the rudiments of computer literacy.”" (via)

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