<div>Hi Sameer, </div>
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<div>You might be interested in his blog (which reveals interesting facets of his personality) that is if you haven&#39;t seen it already:</div>
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<div><a href="http://sugatam.blogspot.com/">http://sugatam.blogspot.com/</a></div>
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<div>regards,</div>
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<div>rakesh<br><br>&nbsp;</div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/14/09, <b class="gmail_sendername">Sameer Verma</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:sverma@sfsu.edu">sverma@sfsu.edu</a>&gt; wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Just saw Sugata Mitra&#39;s talk at Lift (<a href="http://liftconference.com/">http://liftconference.com/</a>) on<br>
the hole-in-the-wall experiment and the data they collected. Most<br>impressive was the concept of self-organized learning that happened in<br>these places. <a href="http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/sugata_mitra_shows_how_kids_teach_themselves.html">http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/sugata_mitra_shows_how_kids_teach_themselves.html</a><br>
It goes against all the talk about teacher training, etc.<br><br>Sameer<br>--<br>Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D.<br>Associate Professor of Information Systems<br>San Francisco State University<br>San Francisco CA 94132 USA<br><a href="http://verma.sfsu.edu/">http://verma.sfsu.edu/</a><br>
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