Have you ever wondered what education was like in the 80s and 70s? I think it is wise to inquire from people who were part of the educational process in those days.
Currently, you can be in your bedroom and know as much as you can via technology. It’s s quite amazing, hence leveraging technology would be amazing.
Initially, having a desktop or a laptop used to be a necessity to study online. Now, the case is different, all you need is an internet enabled smartphone. You can learn as much as possible.
“I compare education without technology to a medical profession without technology,” says Don Knezek, the CEO of the International Society for Technology in Education
“In 1970 you had knee surgery, you got a huge scar,” he says. “Now, if you have knee surgery you have two little dots.”
You no longer carry a bunch of notebooks for every course, all these things could be embedded in your smartphone, tablets, and iPads. E-book makes that a reality usually in a PDF format. You can have different e-books on various subjects and courses with ease and convenience.
Besides that, lots of software’s and applications that have transformed education rapidly and positively. For instance, for those that did something on a graph, you will recall that you could spend the whole day and week creating a graph for an experiment. Most times, you get stuck and end up with the wrong thing.
Meanwhile, if you are hooking up Ultrasonic Motion Detector, you get the accurate real-time feel for what it means to move at faster rates or slower rates or increasing in speed or decreasing in speed.
Chad Dorsey, the president and CEO of Concord Consortium say “I taught physics before, and you spend a lot of time getting these ideas of position, and what is velocity, and what does motion mean, presently the cases are different.
Interestingly, I have listed some websites you can leverage to horn your skills and become superb educated. Here are some of the websites you can start with:
1. Udemy
2. Cousera
3. Code Academy
4. Glovoco
5. Khan Academy
6. EdX
7. ItunesU
8. Treehouse.
9. General Assembly
10. Rype
Let me stress a bit about Glovico.org, a language learning website for those who are keen to learning a new language. On this site, students can set up language lessons with a native speaker who lives in another country and attend the lessons via video conferencing. This kind of feat was not achieved a few years ago.
To even make more fun, software engineers and application developers come up with games that are focused on making you more enlightened. Thanks to Google Play Store, where you can download series of games on your phone that would horn your critical, innovation and creative skills.
According to Epidemic Games Group, creative professionals learn innovative thinking through training that is very different from traditional academic classrooms because innovative thinking means more than just knowing the right answers on a test.
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