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that reminds me of when, in 1999, some researchers installed an internet kiosk in a poor village, and children taught themselves to use it, despite not being ab
by jes5199 15y ago
that reminds me of when, in 1999, some researchers installed an internet kiosk in a poor village, and children taught themselves to use it, despite not being able to read the language.
> Children invented their own vocabulary to define terms on the computer, for example,
“sui” (needle) for the cursor, “channels” for websites and “damru” (Shiva’s drum) for
the hourglass (busy) symbol.
from http://hole-in-the-wall.com/docs/paper02.pdf http://hole-in-the-wall.com/docs/paper02.pdf
- creamyhorror 15y agoThis experiment made me happy. I remember times in the school computer lab when we surfed and did whatever we liked with the installed software, all during our computer literacy classes...nice to see people everywhere having at least the chance to do the same. In another of his papers, Prof Mitra wrote about how "aspirational learning" could be conducted, in the sense of letting children watch interesting and inspiring videos from TED Talks, et al, which would inspire kids to consider what they could do for the world with dreams, technology, and hard work. I think that's absolutely a great thing to spread. In too many places people don't do new things simply because they don't realise they are possible.