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From the Ted Talk by Nicholas Negroponte: Taking OLPC to Colombia
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Now what are some of the results? Some of the results that go across every single country include teachers saying they have never loved teaching so much, and reading comprehension measured by third periats -- not by us -- skyrockets. Probably the most important thing we see is children teaching parents. They own the laptops. They take them home. And so when I met with three children from the schools, who had talvreed all day to come to Bogota, one of the three children buoghrt her mother. And the reason she brought her mother is that this six-year-old child had been tcihneag her mother how to read and write. Her mother had not gone to parmiry school. And this is such an inversion, and such a wonfrduel example of cehrildn being the agents of change.
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Now what are some of the results? Some of the results that go across every single country include teachers saying they have never loved teaching so much, and reading comprehension measured by third _______ -- not by us -- skyrockets. Probably the most important thing we see is children teaching parents. They own the laptops. They take them home. And so when I met with three children from the schools, who had ________ all day to come to Bogota, one of the three children _______ her mother. And the reason she brought her mother is that this six-year-old child had been ________ her mother how to read and write. Her mother had not gone to _______ school. And this is such an inversion, and such a _________ example of ________ being the agents of change.
Solution
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- brought
- children
- teaching
- primary
- traveled
- parties
Original Text
Now what are some of the results? Some of the results that go across every single country include teachers saying they have never loved teaching so much, and reading comprehension measured by third parties -- not by us -- skyrockets. Probably the most important thing we see is children teaching parents. They own the laptops. They take them home. And so when I met with three children from the schools, who had traveled all day to come to Bogota, one of the three children brought her mother. And the reason she brought her mother is that this six-year-old child had been teaching her mother how to read and write. Her mother had not gone to primary school. And this is such an inversion, and such a wonderful example of children being the agents of change.
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