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111 Knowledge and technology 09 LANGUAGE SKILLS EXPLORE EXTRAS Listen to a TV news report about the Hole in the Wall project. 1 What was the main conclusion that the researchers reached about the children’s behaviour? 2 How do the children learn to use the computers? 3 What is installed on the computers? 4 What is the reporter’s final point and message for the future? What images do you think were shown on screen at these points? 12 TCD  3/02 13 “The children are falling over themselves to look at something new.” “… which would go on to inspire the hit movie Slumdog Millionaire …” “… giving the children access to a whole new world and valuable life skills.” “He’s been coming here from the start, learning by watching others.” 1 2 3 4 Talk together. 1 What kind of online sites do you think the children will access? 2 What do you think they like best about computers? 3 How do you think they benefit from the project? Read the interview. Were your ideas the same? a REaDIng 14 b The project has now expanded throughout India to many different provinces. Psychologist Ritu  Dangwal has observed kids using the kiosks since its inception. Who’s looking through the Hole in the Wall  and what are they really getting out of it? (1) ? Definitely – there has been a marked difference in how the children and community react to a computer, depending on the geographic location and on cultural, ethnic and racial backgrounds. In some places there is no gender difference. At the other extreme, girls, though eager, do not come to the kiosk. They just stop near the kiosk site and watch. (2) ? I don’t see the Hole in the Wall as a purely Indian phenomenon. Children are the same all across the world. If it can hold true in India, it can work as well anywhere in the world. Cambodia, Ethiopia and the Philippines have all shown interest in this project. (3) ? There was a study done by a professor teaching at Delhi University entitled ʻComputer Environment and Cognitive Developmentʼ. She found that children using the kiosk were more persistent, more tolerant toward ambiguity – their aspirations were more realistic than children who were going to school but not using the kiosk. (4) ? Clicking around the internet may not directly lead to any kind of improvement. But yes, browsing the internet is like a child sitting with a book in their hands. Without knowing it, children are going to sites like tours and travels, reading news, or making attempts to do so. At the end of the day, they are doing far more constructive work than they would have done in a classroom. (5) ? Just about everything. How intuitively these slum children have taken to computers. How well they seem to have organised themselves to pick up skills. Their quest for information is the greatest wonder. Write a question for each of the answers. Then check on p. 205. Do you think the project could be criticised? Think of arguments for and against. c d Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv