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From the Ted Talk by Sugata Mitra: The child-driven education

Unscramble the Blue Letters

This is the first experiment that we did — eight year-old boy on your right teaching his student, a six year-old girl, and he was taeihcng her how to browse. This boy here in the middle of central India — this is in a Rajasthan village, where the children recorded their own music and then pyaled it back to each other and in the process, they've enjoyed themselves thoroughly. They did all of this in four hours after seeing the ctumeopr for the first time. In another South Indian village, these boys here had assembled a video camera and were trying to take the photograph of a bumble bee. They downloaded it from diesny.com, or one of these websites, 14 days after ptnuitg the computer in their village. So at the end of it, we cncdleuod that gpruos of children can learn to use computers and the internet on their own, irrespective of who or where they were.

Open Cloze

This is the first experiment that we did — eight year-old boy on your right teaching his student, a six year-old girl, and he was ________ her how to browse. This boy here in the middle of central India — this is in a Rajasthan village, where the children recorded their own music and then ______ it back to each other and in the process, they've enjoyed themselves thoroughly. They did all of this in four hours after seeing the ________ for the first time. In another South Indian village, these boys here had assembled a video camera and were trying to take the photograph of a bumble bee. They downloaded it from ______.com, or one of these websites, 14 days after _______ the computer in their village. So at the end of it, we _________ that ______ of children can learn to use computers and the internet on their own, irrespective of who or where they were.

Solution

  1. played
  2. disney
  3. groups
  4. putting
  5. concluded
  6. computer
  7. teaching

Original Text

This is the first experiment that we did — eight year-old boy on your right teaching his student, a six year-old girl, and he was teaching her how to browse. This boy here in the middle of central India — this is in a Rajasthan village, where the children recorded their own music and then played it back to each other and in the process, they've enjoyed themselves thoroughly. They did all of this in four hours after seeing the computer for the first time. In another South Indian village, these boys here had assembled a video camera and were trying to take the photograph of a bumble bee. They downloaded it from Disney.com, or one of these websites, 14 days after putting the computer in their village. So at the end of it, we concluded that groups of children can learn to use computers and the internet on their own, irrespective of who or where they were.

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