Scavenger Hunt 1

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.	Sugata Mitra	India	Businessweek Online Daily Briefing, March 2, 2000. Edited by Paul Judge	Google	Phrase Searching and Boolean Logic
2. What does NIIT stands for?	National Institute of Information Technology	India	Author: Vivian Falae UPDATED: 9 MONTHS AGO	Google	Phrase Searching
3. It was implemented at a slum area in New Delhi.	Poverty Reduction	India	© Hole-in-the-Wall Education Limited 2015	Google
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	Kalkaji, New Delhi	© Hole-in-the-Wall Education Limited 2015	Google	Phrase Searching
5. What was the significant finding of the experiment?	The results, which have been uniformly encouraging, show that children learn to operate as well as play with the computer with minimum intervention. They picked up skills and tasks by constructing their own learning environment.	India	© Hole-in-the-Wall Education Limited 2015	Google	Pseudo-Boolean 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?	The acquisition of basic computing skills by any set of children can be achieved through incidental learning provided the learners are given access to a suitable computing facility, with entertaining and motivating content and some minimal (human) guidance.	Australia	© Hole-in-the-Wall Education Limited 2015	Google	Phrase Searching