Tuesday, August 7, 2018


SCAVENGER HUNT

CHALLENGE I
Search the Internet and supply the following facts and information
. Write your answers in the table below.

NUGGETS
ANSWER
LOCATION
VALUE: Sources/Author/Date Published/Sponsor/Copyright
Search Engine
Search Technique
1. Sometime in 1991, a chief scientist at the NIIT, named, started an experiment hole in a wall.
Dr. Sugata Mitra
www.hole-in-the-wall.com/Beginnings.html
© Hole-in-the-Wall Education Limited 2015
Google
Pseudo-Boolean Logic and Phrase Searching

2. What does NIIT stands for?
National Institute of Information Technology (India)
 India
https://www.acronymfinder.com/National-Institute-of-Information-Technology-(India)-(NIIT).html
Google
Phrase Searching and Boolean Logic
3. It was implemented at a slum area in New Delhi.
Hole-in-the-Wall Education Project (HiWEP) Formally called Minimally Invasive Education
http://www.hole-in-the-wall.com/Abouthiwel.html
© Hole-in-the-Wall Education Project 2016
Google
Boolean Logic
4. His team carved a hole in the wall that separated NIIT campuses from slum areas. Why did they carve hole in the wall?
Dr. Mitra's team carved a "hole in the wall" that separated the NIIT premises from the adjoining slum in Kalkaji, New Delhi. Through this hole, a freely accessible computer was put up for use

http://www.hole-in-the-wall.com/Beginnings.html
© Hole-in-the-Wall Education Limited 2015
Goo
gle
Phrase Searching
5. What was the significant finding of the experiment?
Local teachers and field observers noted that the children demonstrated improvements in enrollment, attendance and performance on school examinations, particularly in subjects that deal with computing skills; English vocabulary and usage; concentration, attention span and problem-solving skills; and working cooperatively and self-regulation.
New Delhi, India
https://www.edutopia.org/blog/self-organized-learning-sugata-mitra
Google
Phrase Searching
6. What could be the implications of this finding to existing teaching practices especially those that are related with the use of ICT in learning?

google
-August 06, 2018


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