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A LESSON IN COMPUTER LITERACY FROM INDIA'S POOREST KIDS
A LESSON IN COMPUTER LITERACY FROM INDIA'S POOREST KIDS Issue: Digital
Divide
Sugata Mitra, head of research efforts at New Delhi's NIIT, a fast-growing
software and education company, conducted an experiment providing PC and
Internet access poor New Delhi children. He discovered that with days, and
with out assistance, the kids had taught themselves to draw on the
computer and to browse the Net. As a result of his experiment, Mitra is
convinced that 500 million children could achieve basic computer literacy
over the next five years, if the Indian government put 100,000
Net-connected PCs in schools and trained teachers in some basic
"noninvasive" teaching techniques for guiding children in using them. An
interview with Mitra appears at URL below. [SOURCE: Business Week, AUTHOR:
Thane Peterson]
(http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/mar2000/nf00302b.htm)
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