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1. Sometime in 1991, a chief scientist at the NIIT, named, started an experiment hole in a wall.
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Dr. Sugatra Mitra
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Kalkaji,
New Delhi,
India
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Businessweek Online Daily Briefing/
March 2, 2000/
Edited by Paul Judge
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2. What does NIIT stands for?
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National Institute of Information Technology
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India
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Vijay Tadhena
Rajendra Pawar |
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3. It was implemented at a slum area in New Delhi.
| Kalkaji | India | Hole in the wall education ltd. | Phrase Searching | |
4. His team carved a hole in the wall that separated NIIT campuses from slum areas. Why did they carve hole in the wall?
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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. This computer proved to be an instant hit among the slum dwellers, especially the children. With no prior experience, the children learnt to use the computer on their own.
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Kalkaji, New Delhi, India
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5. What was the significant finding of the experiment?
| The results, 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 environmental | India | Hole-in-the-wall education limited 2015e | Phrase searching | |
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?
| An effective assessment task is one which assesses students' attainment of the learning outcomes. Unit learning outcomes are what students are expected to know, understand or be able to do in order to be successful in a unit | India | Macquarie University |
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