[Chapter-delegates] Fwd: Background to the film Slumdog Millionaire

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>>A NEWCASTLE professor watched Oscar-winning Slumdog Millionaire -  
>>not realising he was the inspiration behind the movie.
>>
>>A decade ago Professor Sugata Mitra knocked a hole through the wall  
>>of his laboratory in New Delhi, India, so children in the adjoining  
>>slum could play on one of his computers.
>>
>>The experiment, to see whether unschooled children would teach  
>>themselves how to use the internet if left to their own devices, was  
>>intended as an educational tool.
>>
>>But it eventually inspired the film which swept the Oscars on Sunday  
>>night.
>>
>>As he celebrated the film's success, original author Vikas Swarup  
>>said he wrote Q&A, which was adapted for the screen by Simon  
>>Beaufoy, as a direct result of hearing about street children using  
>>Professor Mitra's computer.
>. . .
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>Full story at:
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>http://tinyurl.com/czcd32
>
>See also:
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>http://markkobayashihillary.computing.co.uk/2009/02/a-niit-at-the-movies.html

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