Scavenger Hunt (Challenge 1)

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	New Delhi, India	http://www.hole-in-the-wall.com/Beginnings.html, © Hole-in-the-Wall Education Limited 2015	Google Chrome	Boolean Logic
2. What does NIIT stands for?	National Institute of Information Technology	India	https://www.acronymfinder.com/National-Institute-of-Information-Technology-(India)-(NIIT).html	Google Chrome	Boolean Logic
3. His team carved a hole in the wall that separated NIIT campuses from slum areas. Why did they carve hole in the wall?	To separate the NIIT premises from the adjoining slum in Kalkaji, New Delhi. Through this hole, a freely accessible computer was put up for use.	Kalkaji, New Delhi, India	http://www.hole-in-the-wall.com/Beginnings.html, © Hole-in-the-Wall Education Limited 2015	Google Chrome	Phrase Searching
4. What was the significant finding of the experiment?	Children could learn on their own, was something not many people would have imagined and that too in such a cost effective manner with benefits like improved group dynamics, better in-class behavior etc.the children. With no prior experience, the children learnt to use the computer on their own.	Kalkaji, New Delhi, India	http://www.hole-in-the-wall.com/Insight.html, © Hole-in-the-Wall Education Limited 2015	Google Chrome	Phrase Searching
5. 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 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.	Kalkaji, New Delhi, India	http://www.hole-in-the-wall.com/Beginnings.html, © Hole-in-the-Wall Education Limited 2015	Google Chrome	Phrase Searching