Title of a TED talk by Sugata Mitra, famous for the hole-in-the-wall experiments in slum and rural settings in India.
Talk is here
It really gets going at 8 minutes in -that's when he starts describing the experiment.
His conclusion: that, given access to a computer monitor, touch pad and the internet, groups of uneducated children with zero adult intervention were on "a learning curve almost exactly the same as you would find in a school" (that quote is from around 15 mins into the talk).
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onwardandupward · 30/08/2008 21:07
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