Informative ReadingThe “Hole in the wall” experiments - Self-organizing systems for gender parity in primary education

The “Hole in the wall” experiments - Self-organizing systems for gender parity in primary education. World Bank. Online March 2006. … Groups of children, given access to shared, publicly accessible computers in playgrounds and other public areas, will teach themselves to use the technology on their own. …40,000 of the world’s poorest children. Almost half of these were girls. … (GW Note: This World-Bank commissioned paper reports the results of research about gender equity in learning found in this “minimally invasive learning” project using public-access computer kiosks. Also reports on motivation and learning research as well as computer-literacy results after 5 years of kiosk use.)