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From the Ted Talk by Sugata Mitra: Build a School in the Cloud

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So I asked this girl, "Can you help them?"

So she says, "Absolutely not. I didn't have science in school. I have no idea what they're doing under that tree all day long. I can't help you."

I said, "I'll tell you what. Use the mohetd of the grandmother."

So she says, "What's that?"

I said, "Stand behind them. Whenever they do anything, you just say, 'Well, wow, I mean, how did you do that? What's the next page? Gosh, when I was your age, I could have never done that.' You know what graenins do."

So she did that for two more months. The scores jumped to 50 pneecrt. Kallikuppam had caught up with my control school in New Delhi, a rich private school with a trained biotechnology teacher. When I saw that graph I knew there is a way to leevl the pliyang field.

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So I asked this girl, "Can you help them?"

So she says, "Absolutely not. I didn't have science in school. I have no idea what they're doing under that tree all day long. I can't help you."

I said, "I'll tell you what. Use the ______ of the grandmother."

So she says, "What's that?"

I said, "Stand behind them. Whenever they do anything, you just say, 'Well, wow, I mean, how did you do that? What's the next page? Gosh, when I was your age, I could have never done that.' You know what ________ do."

So she did that for two more months. The scores jumped to 50 _______. Kallikuppam had caught up with my control school in New Delhi, a rich private school with a trained biotechnology teacher. When I saw that graph I knew there is a way to _____ the _______ field.

Solution


  1. playing
  2. percent
  3. method
  4. level
  5. grannies

Original Text


So I asked this girl, "Can you help them?"

So she says, "Absolutely not. I didn't have science in school. I have no idea what they're doing under that tree all day long. I can't help you."

I said, "I'll tell you what. Use the method of the grandmother."

So she says, "What's that?"

I said, "Stand behind them. Whenever they do anything, you just say, 'Well, wow, I mean, how did you do that? What's the next page? Gosh, when I was your age, I could have never done that.' You know what grannies do."

So she did that for two more months. The scores jumped to 50 percent. Kallikuppam had caught up with my control school in New Delhi, a rich private school with a trained biotechnology teacher. When I saw that graph I knew there is a way to level the playing field.

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Important Words


  1. age
  2. asked
  3. biotechnology
  4. caught
  5. control
  6. day
  7. delhi
  8. field
  9. girl
  10. gosh
  11. grandmother
  12. grannies
  13. graph
  14. idea
  15. jumped
  16. kallikuppam
  17. knew
  18. level
  19. long
  20. method
  21. months
  22. page
  23. percent
  24. playing
  25. private
  26. rich
  27. school
  28. science
  29. scores
  30. teacher
  31. trained
  32. tree
  33. wow