Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Computer literacy in depressed areas


Sugata Mitra's presentation at the Lift '07 conference, reporting what he found out when he left computers in rural areas in India. Skip one-third of the presentation to get to the main bits. "Primary education can happen on its own," Mitra concludes.

[via PFSK]

2 comments:

  1. This is pretty amazing. I wonder though how much of the results are cultural in origin though, but nevertheless, I thought this was fascinating stuff.

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  2. good point. that didn't cross my mind. at any rate, just think of the possibilities that the $100 laptop can bring about.

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