The Hole in the Wall: An Experiment in Learning and Technology (Enhanced DVD)
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Self-taught people around the world illustrate the power of taking education into your own hand. There are dozens of poets, engineers, and other specialists who have learned all they needed to know outside of the hallowed halls of higher education. That said, it is definitely easier to learn many of these skills with the help of universities and colleges. However, could self-education be promoted by the use of technology in a way that helps make a reliance on higher education less necessary?
"The Hole in the Wall: An Experiment in Learning and Technology" seems to suggest that this is the case. This DVD chronicles the studies of Indian researcher Sugata Mitra. He set up a touch-screen computer in a wall near his New Delhi IT firm's office. This wall faced a slum which housed a wide variety of low-education and low-income people. The experiment here was to gauge how quickly uneducated street children could learn to use the interface.
What they found was astonishing: they not only quickly learned how to surf the internet and download games, they also learned how to follow news in an intuitive manner. Even more promising, they often stumbled upon functions or shortcuts that weren't easily apparent. Those who did so quickly taught their friends these functions in a self-instruction spiral that Mitra found highly promising.
As you'll see in this DVD, the curiosity of the human mind is one of the most powerful forces for education in the world. You'll be shocked to see how quickly children pick up on these education lessons and how they use them to become stronger people. For his work, Mitra won a TED prize in 2013. Hopefully the innovations in this movie can forge a new world of self-guided education.
The Hole in the Wall: An Experiment in Learning and Technology (Enhanced DVD)
"The Hole in the Wall: An Experiment in Learning and Technology" seems to suggest that this is the case. This DVD chronicles the studies of Indian researcher Sugata Mitra. He set up a touch-screen computer in a wall near his New Delhi IT firm's office. This wall faced a slum which housed a wide variety of low-education and low-income people. The experiment here was to gauge how quickly uneducated street children could learn to use the interface.
What they found was astonishing: they not only quickly learned how to surf the internet and download games, they also learned how to follow news in an intuitive manner. Even more promising, they often stumbled upon functions or shortcuts that weren't easily apparent. Those who did so quickly taught their friends these functions in a self-instruction spiral that Mitra found highly promising.
As you'll see in this DVD, the curiosity of the human mind is one of the most powerful forces for education in the world. You'll be shocked to see how quickly children pick up on these education lessons and how they use them to become stronger people. For his work, Mitra won a TED prize in 2013. Hopefully the innovations in this movie can forge a new world of self-guided education.
The Hole in the Wall: An Experiment in Learning and Technology (Enhanced DVD)
- ISBN: 978-1-61753-717-2
- Run Time: 59 Minutes
- Copyright Date: 2003
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