Scavenger Hunt: Challenge 1

NUGGETS	ANSWER	LOCATION	VALUE: Sources/Author/Date Published/Sponsor/Copyright	Search Engine	Search Technique
1. Sometime in 1991, a chief scientist at the NIIT, named, started an experiment hole in a wall.	Dr. Sugata Mitra	India	www.hole-in-the-wall.com › About HiWEL	Google	Phrase engine
2. What does NIIT stands for?	National Institute of Information Technology	India	https://www.acronymfinder.com/National-Institute-of-Information-Technology-(India)-(...	google	Phrase engine
3. His team carved a hole in the wall that separated NIIT campuses from slum areas. Why did they carve hole in the wall?	Through this hole, a freely accessible computer was put up for use. This computer proved to be an instant hit among the slum dwellers, especially the children. With no prior experience, the children learnt to use the computer on their own.	India	www.hole-in-the-wall.com › About HiWEL	Google	Phrase engine
4. What was the significant finding of the experiment?	The results, which have been uniformly encouraging, show that children learn to operate as well as play with the computer with minimum intervention. They picked up skills and tasks by constructing their own learning environment.	India	http://www.hole-in-the-wall.com/abouthiwel.html	Google	Pseudo-boolean logic
5. What could be the implications of this finding to existing teaching practices especially those that are related with the use of ICT in learning?	An effective assessment task is one which assesses students' attainment of the learning outcomes. Unit learning outcomes are what students are expected to know, understand or be able to do in order to be successful in a unit.	India	https://staff.mq.edu.au/teaching/evaluation/resources_evaluation/developing_unit/assess_achievement/#group_work	google	phrase searching