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The Hole in the Wall An Experiment in Learning and Technology
Title
The Hole in the Wall [electronic resource (video)] : An Experiment in Learning and Technology / Globalvision (Firm).
Published
New York, N.Y. : Infobase, [2013], c2003.
Physical Description
1 streaming video file (59 min.) : sd., col.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on April 12, 2013.
Films on Demand is distributed by Infobase for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.
Title from distributor's description.
Access and use
Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
When Indian researcher Sugata Mitra embedded a touch-screen computer in a wall separating his IT firm's New Delhi offices from an adjacent slum, he discovered that street children quickly taught themselves how to surf the net, read the news, and download games in what he calls "a spiral of self-instruction." What's more, when one child stumbled upon a shortcut or a new function, he quickly taught it to several other children. In this inspiring program, Mitra tells the story of the electronic hole in the wall that enabled some of India's poorest children to leap the digital divide and improve their future prospects, and Mitra to test his theory of minimally invasive education. Just how far will kids go if allowed to teach themselves? Mitra was awarded the prestigious TED prize in 2013 for continuing the educational innovations documented in this film.
Variant and related titles
Experiment in Learning and Technology
Films on demand.
Other formats
Originally produced: Globalvision (Firm), 2003.
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 20, 2019
System details note
Mode of access: Internet.
System requirements: FOD playback platform.
Audience
6 & up.
Contents
Hole in the Wall Experiment (4:43)
Children Teaching Children (2:10)
Learning by Accidental Discoveries (4:28)
Windows on the World (4:43)
Education in New Delhi (2:21)
Computer Experience: Gender Equality (3:55)
Computers and Generational Change (2:25)
Children's Ease with Computers (3:12)
Team of Organizers (2:19)
Portable Computer Station (2:19)
Hole in the Wall: Journey of the Mind (4:33)
Visit with Arthur C. Clarke (6:28)
Expanding Horizons (4:07)
Changes in Education (4:47)
Impact of the Hole in the Wall (3:47)
Credits: The Hole in the Wall: An Experiment in Learning and Technology (1:17)
Videorecording number
53180 Infobase
Subjects
Genre/Form
Educational films.
Internet videos.
Also listed under
Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)
Infobase.
Globalvision (Firm).
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