Ethiopian Kids Using Tablets to Teach Themselves

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By Fiona Ehlers

Photo Gallery: Remote Teaching by Tablet

Tim Freccia/ DER SPIEGEL

A US aid organization has handed children in the remote Ethiopian village of Wenchi tablet computers in an experiment aimed at enabling them to teach themselves. They are now speaking their first words of English -- without ever having encountered a teacher.

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