Speaking at LIFT 2007, Sugata Mitra talks about his Hole in the Wall project. Young kids in this project figured out how to use a PC on their own – and then taught other kids. He asks, what else can children teach themselves?
And more from an old Business Week article:
And Indian physicist puts a PC with a high speed internet connection in a wall in the slums and watches what happens. Based on the results, he talks about issues of digital divide, computer education and kids, the dynamics of the third world getting online.
New Delhi physicist Sugata Mitra has a radical proposal for bringing his country’s next generation into the Info Age.
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