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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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Sugata
Mitra
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New Delhi
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Hole-in-the-Wall Education
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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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3. It was
implemented at a slum area in New Delhi.
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Kalkaji New Delhi
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India
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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?
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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
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Hole-in-the-Wall Education
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5. What was the
significant finding of the experiment?
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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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india
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Hole-in-the-Wall Education
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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?
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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.
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Australia
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Learning and Teaching Centre at Macquarie
University
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