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Just discovered Hole-in-the-Wall Education. "Forget about the $100 laptop- how about free? Free access to computers is what Sugata Mitra, physicist and chief scientist with India's international software giant NIIT Ltd. wants for India's 200 million children. That's why he started an Internet learning experiment called Hole-in-the-Wall, where he embedded a kiosk housing high-speed touch-screen computers into the wall that separates the company's headquarters from New Delhi's biggest slum, the Christian Science Monitor reports.
Mitra hopes
that widespread implementation of these kiosks could bring India's
poorest group of children into the digital age. It's amazing how
quickly the children pick up the skills they need to operate and learn
from computers, Mitra says. Within nine months, the boys and girls
achieve, "the proficiency level equivalent to the skills of most modern
office workers." ZDNet Education Pictures are from the hiwel website and here's a detailed interview with Dr Sugata Mitra, Chief Scientist, at India's National Institute of Information Technology. 5:38:36 PM  comment [] trackback []
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That
was in 1999 and since then Mitra has installed more then 150 computers
- with keyboards, touch pads, and Web cameras - in some 50 locations
from New Delhi slums to points in rural India.
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