Learning by doing

This report from BBC news exemplifies 'learning by doing' which is what introducing blogging into the classroom is about.


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He built special kiosks where only children could reach the keyboard, and left them connected to the internet. In each case the results were the same.
Without adult intervention, the children got to grips with the technology, even with their limited understanding of English.
Sugata was able to make some important but controversial observations. For Sugata, it is this group learning which is significant.
'We know that in nine months the entire group of children in a village would have reached approximately the level of an office secretary, which means they know dragging and dropping files, they know downloading, they can play video and audio and they can surf the internet".