Ten years ago, Indian academic Professor Sugata Mitra had the ___1___
of making a computer accessible ___2___
slum children. He knocked a hole ___3___
the wall of his laboratory so that children in the adjoining
slum could play on one of his computers. He wanted to see if
unschooled children would teach ___4___
how to use the Internet. When the slum was revisited after a
month, the children of that slum ___5___
how to use the worldwide web.
Professor Sugata expanded the project to 23 villages in
India. At the end of five years the schools started reporting
that their English, maths and science ___6___
were all going up. There are now about 600 hole-in-the-wall
computers around the world.
Sugata's 'hole-in-the-wall' project was the inspiration for
Slumdog, ___7___
Oscar winner. |