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

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So I came back to Newcastle with these rueslts and decided that there was something happening here that definitely was getting very serious. So, having experimented in all sorts of remote places, I came to the most remote place that I could think of. (Laughter) alpxmreipoaty 5,000 miles from Delhi is the little town of gehtseaad. In Gateshead, I took 32 children and I started to fine-tune the method. I made them into groups of four. I said, "You make your own groups of four. Each gourp of four can use one computer and not four computers." reeebmmr, from the Hole in the Wall. "You can exchange groups. You can walk across to another group, if you don't like your group, etc. You can go to another group, peer over their sehodlrus, see what they're doing, come back to you own group and claim it as your own work." And I explained to them that, you know, a lot of sfiineticc research is done using that method.

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So I came back to Newcastle with these _______ and decided that there was something happening here that definitely was getting very serious. So, having experimented in all sorts of remote places, I came to the most remote place that I could think of. (Laughter) _____________ 5,000 miles from Delhi is the little town of _________. In Gateshead, I took 32 children and I started to fine-tune the method. I made them into groups of four. I said, "You make your own groups of four. Each _____ of four can use one computer and not four computers." ________, from the Hole in the Wall. "You can exchange groups. You can walk across to another group, if you don't like your group, etc. You can go to another group, peer over their _________, see what they're doing, come back to you own group and claim it as your own work." And I explained to them that, you know, a lot of __________ research is done using that method.

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  1. remember
  2. approximately
  3. results
  4. gateshead
  5. shoulders
  6. group
  7. scientific

Original Text


So I came back to Newcastle with these results and decided that there was something happening here that definitely was getting very serious. So, having experimented in all sorts of remote places, I came to the most remote place that I could think of. (Laughter) Approximately 5,000 miles from Delhi is the little town of Gateshead. In Gateshead, I took 32 children and I started to fine-tune the method. I made them into groups of four. I said, "You make your own groups of four. Each group of four can use one computer and not four computers." Remember, from the Hole in the Wall. "You can exchange groups. You can walk across to another group, if you don't like your group, etc. You can go to another group, peer over their shoulders, see what they're doing, come back to you own group and claim it as your own work." And I explained to them that, you know, a lot of scientific research is done using that method.

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