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Children and the Internet: experiments with minimally invasive education in India
Abstract
Urban children all over the world seem to acquire computing skills without adult intervention. Indeed this form of self‐instruction has produced hackers?children who can penetrate high tech security systems. Is this kind of learning dependent only on the availability of technology? We provided slum children in New Delhi with Internet access in their settlement. The paper describes the results obtained in the first month of unsupervised and unguided access. It is observed that children seem to understand and use the technology fluently. Language and formal education do not seem to make any significant difference.
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“MIE experiments clearly indicate that children are able to learn to use computers and the Internet on their own, irrespective of their social, cultural or economic backgrounds (Mitra & Rana, 2001; Mitra, 2004).”
From Acquisition of computing literacy on shared public computers: Children and the "hole in the wall" (2005) · cites this paper as Mitra & Rana, 2001
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“Empirical research for five years (Mitra, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004) substantiated this speculation.”
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Bond, M., Zawacki‐Richter, O., & Nichols, M. (2019) · British Journal of Educational Technology · doi:10.1111/bjet.12730 · Cited by 243
Acquisition of computing literacy on shared public computers: Children and the "hole in the wall"
Mitra, S., Dangwal, R., Chatterjee, S., Jha, S., Bisht, R. S., & Kapur, P. (2005) · Australasian Journal of Educational Technology · doi:10.14742/ajet.1328 · Cited by 198
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- Authors
- Mitra, S., & Rana, V.
- Affiliations
- NIIT (India) (IN)
- ORCID
- Mitra, Sugata
- Venue
- British Journal of Educational Technology
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2001-03
- Volume
- 32
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 221-232
- ISSN
- 0007-1013 (ISSN-L)
- 1467-8535
- OpenAlex
- W2154689847
- Cited by
- 154
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 5 · 2019: 6 · 2018: 4 · 2017: 9 · 2016: 11 · 2015: 16 · 2014: 9 · 2013: 5 · 2012: 18
- FWCI
- 9.28
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- British Journal of Educational Technology (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › ICT in Developing Communities
- Social Sciences › Education › Child Development and Digital Technology
- Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Gender and Technology in Education
- Keywords
- children's internet use, self-directed learning, urban slum children, informal education, access to technology, digital literacy, language and learning, New Delhi
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