Bridging the digital divide by reaching previously underserved children in the developing world-urban slums and remote-rural populations, ethnic minorities, juvenile home detainees, and children with special needs-Hole-in-the-Wall has installed over 500 public Playground Learning Stations across India, Bhutan, Cambodia and countries in the African continent. Game-activities promote experiential learning that is mapped to prescribed primary grade curricula across various subjects, Hole-in-the-Wall's Activity Based E-Learning Solution imparts a playful learning environment by encouraging learning through self and group exploration beyond the classroom.
(The Oscar winning film 'Slumdog Millionaire' was based on a book by the same name inspired by Mitra's 'Hole in the wall' experiments.)
Spotlight on Hole-in-the-Wall:
- Student-centered learning in a digital age
- Learning without a school? Why educators should pay attention to experiments in "self-organized learning."
Hole-in-the-Wall in the news:
- The Granny Cloud
- Using computers to teach children with no teachers
- Slumdog reveals learning treasures
- More than surfing: The Web brings innovation to the poorest classrooms
- Slumdog professor
- Slumdog inspiration
- Give them a laptop and a group of pupils will teach themselves
- Sugatra Mitra: The child-driven education (TED Global)
- Sugatra Mitra shows how kids teach themselves
- Sugatra Mitra’s profile on TED: Ideas Worth Spreading
- In India, spreading literacy through a hole in the wall
- World Bank: Searching for India's hole in the wall
- Sugatra Mitra wins 2011 Klingenstein Award
- Raising young Einsteins
Research featuring Hole-in-the-Wall:
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Mitra, Sugata and Dangwal, Ritu (2010). Limits to self-organising systems of learning—the Kalikuppam experiment, British Journal of Educational Technology, Volume 41, Issue 5, pages 672–688, September 2010 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-8535.2010.01077.x/full
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Mitra, Sugata (2009). Remote presence: Technologies for beaming teachers where they cannot go. Journal of Emerging Technology and Web Intelligence, 2009, 1(1), 55-59. http://www.academypublisher.com/jetwi/vol1/no1/jetwi01015559.pdf
- Mitra, Sugata, Dangwal, Ritu and Thadani, Leher (2008). ‘Effects of remoteness on the quality of education: A case study from North Indian schools’. Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2008, 24(2), 168-180.
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