Andrew Loughran wrote: > London School of Puppetry wrote: >> Does anyone know anything about this project? Taking place in India. >> Computers are built into walls in India in open spaces for children to >> play with ....thousands of them have learnt English over the past year >> by playing....Apparently they did try OS tech. but said it didn't >> work- stuff likes Red Hat I was told vaguely.....anyone know anything >> about it? >> >> Caroline >> > Caroline, > > I have come across this before - having read a journal article on the > phenomenon for a final-year Psychology essay. I'll try and dig up the > entry so I can find you some details. > > If I recollect correctly, then the situation was something like the > following: > > A big tech company in Mumbai had a building which was next to a slum, > and one of the buildings backed onto the slum. A philanthropic > employee/manager decided to study the ability for people who were > completely uninitiated to any form of technology to use a computer. It > had a basic keyboard and mouse - and the main reason that I was > impressed by the article - & Linux (though which flavour I am not sure). > > The surprising thing was, that not only were the indian children able to > use the computer and work out how to use the keyboard and the mouse - > but they were able to use both google (and english) to a surprisingly > level. > > If I could get my hands on my Uni documents then I'd be able to give you > a complete essay on it (and a far more accurate account). However, I > ran Windows during my final year of Uni to run some University > software... needless to say the first thing I did when I left uni was to > switch to just ubuntu - and took out my windows HD to keep all my stuff > backed up. That disk is now in Birmingham, and I'm in Manchester. > > I hope this helps. > > Andy >
Google is your friend: http://www.greenstar.org/butterflies/Hole-in-the-Wall.htm Interview with Sugata Mitra, the physicist who started 'minimally invasive education.' http://www.ncl.ac.uk/egwest/holeinthewall.html His article on the 'hole in the wall' project. http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/india/thestory.html Documentary (haven't played it; seems to need realplayer) Can't find anything about the use of linux for it. Google is not my friend :( Great project, thanks for bringing it to my/our attention! John -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
