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From the Ted Talk by Sugata Mitra: Kids can teach themselves

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Finally, I got some funding to try this experiment out to see if these rtsules are replicable, if they happen everywhere else. inida is a good place to do such an experiment in, because we have all the ethnic diversities, all the — you know, the genetic diversity, all the raacil diversities, and also all the socio-economic diversities. So, I could actually choose samples to ceovr a corss section that would cover practically the whole world. So I did this for almost five years, and this exmeeinprt really took us all the way across the length and breadth of India. This is the Himalayas. Up in the north, very cold. I also had to check or invent an engineering design which would suvivre outdoors, and I was using regular, normal PCs, so I needed different climates, for which India is also great, because we have very cold, very hot, and so on. This is the desert to the west. Near the Pakistan border. And you see here a little clip of — one of these villages — the first thing that these children did was to find a website to teach themselves the English alphabet.

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Finally, I got some funding to try this experiment out to see if these _______ are replicable, if they happen everywhere else. _____ is a good place to do such an experiment in, because we have all the ethnic diversities, all the — you know, the genetic diversity, all the ______ diversities, and also all the socio-economic diversities. So, I could actually choose samples to _____ a _____ section that would cover practically the whole world. So I did this for almost five years, and this __________ really took us all the way across the length and breadth of India. This is the Himalayas. Up in the north, very cold. I also had to check or invent an engineering design which would _______ outdoors, and I was using regular, normal PCs, so I needed different climates, for which India is also great, because we have very cold, very hot, and so on. This is the desert to the west. Near the Pakistan border. And you see here a little clip of — one of these villages — the first thing that these children did was to find a website to teach themselves the English alphabet.

Solution


  1. india
  2. racial
  3. results
  4. survive
  5. cross
  6. cover
  7. experiment

Original Text


Finally, I got some funding to try this experiment out to see if these results are replicable, if they happen everywhere else. India is a good place to do such an experiment in, because we have all the ethnic diversities, all the — you know, the genetic diversity, all the racial diversities, and also all the socio-economic diversities. So, I could actually choose samples to cover a cross section that would cover practically the whole world. So I did this for almost five years, and this experiment really took us all the way across the length and breadth of India. This is the Himalayas. Up in the north, very cold. I also had to check or invent an engineering design which would survive outdoors, and I was using regular, normal PCs, so I needed different climates, for which India is also great, because we have very cold, very hot, and so on. This is the desert to the west. Near the Pakistan border. And you see here a little clip of — one of these villages — the first thing that these children did was to find a website to teach themselves the English alphabet.

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