Self learning does not work with children? Think again. A research by Sugata Mitra, Ritu Dangwal, Shiffon Chatterjee, Swati Jha, Ravinder S. Bisht and Preeti Kapur has proven that children have the ability to conduct self learning if there is equipment provided for them. How great it is to know that children in the squaters area learnt to operate and explore computer by themselves? Even we, grown up and live in the city, which is fully furnished with technological stuffs are using the manuals to know how to use the computer. Even I, up to date do not know how to use certain applications in the computer.
Computer is seen as the high-tech and sometimes-complicated machine but these children show that if you want to gain knowledge about something, you may acquire even the harderst thing in the world. Nothing is impossible even if you live in the smallest and poorest part of the world. All you need to have is interest on the subject and courage.
One thing attracts me while reading the article is the idea to place the computer in the wall in open area so that everybody will have the opportunity to have access to the Internet. It is an eye-opener that despite all the difficulties they are facing; poverty, inadequate facilities, illiteracy, these students actually have interest in gaining knowledge and most importantly they succeed in learning how to use the computer as a tool to find information. In addition to that, they learnt without asking help from adults and they being very helpful among each other. I think all of us should take our hats off to these children.
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