Scavenger Hunt

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.	New Delhi physicist Sugata Mitra has a radical proposal for bringing his country's next generation into the Info Age	India	Businessweek Online Daily Briefing, March 2, 2000. Edited by Paul Judge	Google	Phrase searching
2. What does NIIT stands for?	National Institute of Information Technology.	India	Vijay Thadani and Rajendra Pawar, the founders and IIT Delhi grads actually intended it as New Delhi IIT (NIIT) but not formally.	Answers.com	Phrase Searching
3. It was implemented at a slum area in New Delhi.	Kalkaji, New Delhi	India	Hole in the wall education Ltd.	Google	Pseudo-Boolean Logic
4. His team carved a hole in the wall that separated NIIT campuses from slum areas. Why did they carve hole in the wall?	Dr. Sugata Mitra’s team	India	Hole in the wall education Ltd.	Google	Phrase Searching
5. 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	Hole in the wall education Ltd.	Google	Pseudo Boolean Searching
6. 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.	Australia	Macquarie University	Google	Phrase Searchin