This news will blow your mind off: A group of illiterate kids in Ethiopia were given two sealed boxes of educational tablets (Motorola Xoom with solar chargers). This was as part of the OLPC (One laptop per child) experiment. They weren't given any instructions or training. And they were illiterate. What happened next surpasses logic:
The children opened the boxes. One of them found the power switch and turned the tablet on. Within a few days, the children were using many of the apps on the tablet (up to 47 per child). They learnt to read and within a few weeks were singing ABC. To top it all, by the fifth month, they hacked Android. Full story
here.
This story related by OLPC founder
Nicholas Negroponte confounds all known theories of instructional methodology.
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