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Inamdar, Parimala – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2004
Earlier work often referred to as the "hole in the wall" experiments has shown that groups of children can learn to use public computers on their own. This paper presents the method and results of an experiment conducted to investigate whether such unsupervised group learning in shared public spaces can improve children's performance in…
Descriptors: Access to Computers, Computer Science, Foreign Countries, Grade 8