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Sometime in 1991, a chief scientist at the NIIT, named, started an experiment
hole in a wall.
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Dr.
Sugata Mitra
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New Delhi, India
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from a Businessweek Online Daily Briefing,
March 2, 2000.
Edited by Paul Judge
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What does NIIT stands for?
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NIIT stands for National Institute of Information Technology (India)
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Gurugram, India
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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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On 26th January, 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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What was the significant finding of the experiment?
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The findings from Shivpuri and Madantusi
confirmed the results of Kalkaji experiments. It appeared that the children
in these two places picked up computer skills on their own. Dr. Mitra defined
this as a new way of learning - Minimally Invasive Education.
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Kalkaji, New Delhi, India
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What could be the implications of this finding to existing teaching practices
especially those that are related with the use of ICT in learning?
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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
environment.
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Kalkaji, New Delhi, India
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