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	Kalkaji, New Delhi, India	http://www.hole-in-the-wall.com/Beginnings.html	Google.com	Phrase searching
2. What does NIIT stands for?	National Institute of Information Technology	India	https://www.acronymfinder.com/National-Institute-of-Information-Technology-(India)-(NIIT).html	Google.com	Phrase searching
3. It was implemented at a slum area in New Delhi.	Hole in the Wall	India	© Hole-in-the-Wall Education Limited 2015	Google.com	Phrase searching
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. Mitra’s Team carved a hole in the wall that separated the NIIT premises from the adjoining slum. By having this hole, a freely accessible computer was up for use.	Kalkaji, New Delhi	© Hole-in-the-Wall Education Limited 2015	Google.com	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 Limited 2015	Google.com	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	Learning and Teaching Centre at Macquarie University	Google.com	Phrase searching