How This Teacher Won the $1 Million TED Prize

Sugata Mitra's life changed the day he stuck a computer in a hole in the wall of a slum in New Delhi. A computer science professor at a private school, Mitra kept wondering whether the rich kids he was teaching really were inherently talented (as their parents kept insisting), or if the poor kids over the wall just weren't getting a fair shake. So he left that online PC installed in a wall like an ATM, and walked away.

When the slum kids figured out how to use the computer and started teaching each other -- even started teaching each other English so they could use it better -- Mitra knew he was on to something. He started testing the concept in more slums, and had the computers ask t…
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