Monday, August 6, 2018

SCAVENGER HUNT CHALLENGE I

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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
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2. What does NIIT stands for?
National Institute of Information Technology
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3. 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.
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4. What was the significant finding of the experiment?
The acquisition of basic computing skills by any set of children can be achieved through incidental learning provided the learners are given access to a suitable computing facility, with entertaining and motivating content and some minimal (human) guidance.
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5. What could be the implications of this finding to existing teaching practices especially those that are related with the use of ICT in learning?
ICT teachers now are using PC sets to their students. In this way, students easily learns thru hands-on technique as how in the “Hole in the Wall” aimed to do.
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