I ask you…what do we expect of our kids and students?  Do we believe they can get things done, learn, and achieve?  Or, do we believe they are limited and unable to achieve much?  Read about this experiment and see if your mind set changes. 

The experiment was about giving kids access to the Internet and seeing if they were able to learn on their own to use Window’s applications.  It was conducted in a slum in India and the access was unsupervised.

http://www.niit.com/niit/ContentAdmin/NWS/NWSPR/NWSPR2/pr-010405-sugata-dewang.htm

Here is a video on the experiment.

http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/india/thestory.html

Credit for awareness of this story goes to: http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2006/10/sugata_mitra_an.html