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Category Archives: literacy

Literacy, technology, Google, and India

05-Oct-06

(or titled “part 2 of the “hole in the wall” India literacy experiment post!”) Google announced yesterday that it’s launching the Google Literacy project to help spread literacy and provide resources and lots of other stuff for teachers, parents, mentors, students, and just regular people (with internet access) to help do so. While promoting literacy [...]

“Hole in the wall” computer literacy experiment

03-Oct-06

“ New Delhi physicist Sugata Mitra has a radical proposal for bringing his country’s next generation into the Info Age” I don’t wish to claim that this shows anything more or less than what it has shown, which is that curious kids in groups can train themselves to operate a computer at a basic level. [...]