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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
India
from a Businessweek Online Daily Briefing,
March 2, 2000.
Edited by Paul Judg
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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.
 Environmentall upgrading
Slums area in new Delhi
Copyright © 1991 Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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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?
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.
India
© Hole-in-the-Wall Education Limited 2015 
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5. What was the significant finding of the experiment?
has just opened his first School in the Cloud lab just across from the road from the original Hole in the Wall that began this global educational phenomenon.
India
February 4, 2014
Newcastle University
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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?
Children driven by the power of curiosity figured it out. They overcame language barriers and educational gaps. And as one child figured it out, they started teacher the others. New Delhi Katetorgocnick Google Phrase Searching



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