If you think that education happens at school you're sorrily mistaken. My 4 year old is reading Grade 1 books and doing multiplication, my 7 year old equally advanced for her age, and my 7 year old nephew is learning algebra.
Why? Because at every opportunity I facilitate their learning. When they ask a question, I help them to find the answer themselves as much as possible. They learn geography, geology and biology when we go on road trips, when they ask why they look like me and their mom, they learn about DNA. Sure, they don't understand DNA fully but they have a concept of it upon which they can build and ask further questions.
Cheap tablets with connectivity allow us to create a much better system for education, one guided by experimentation and refinement. Imagine having learners watch videos and then when they have a question they get individual attention. You can have project style learning where learners choose projects to work on and then learn the skills and knowledge necessary to complete such a project.
Tablets allow us to move education into the field where anyone can learn the things they need to know to complete the project. This is a GIANT leap forward in education.
Why? Because at every opportunity I facilitate their learning. When they ask a question, I help them to find the answer themselves as much as possible. They learn geography, geology and biology when we go on road trips, when they ask why they look like me and their mom, they learn about DNA. Sure, they don't understand DNA fully but they have a concept of it upon which they can build and ask further questions.
Cheap tablets with connectivity allow us to create a much better system for education, one guided by experimentation and refinement. Imagine having learners watch videos and then when they have a question they get individual attention. You can have project style learning where learners choose projects to work on and then learn the skills and knowledge necessary to complete such a project.
Tablets allow us to move education into the field where anyone can learn the things they need to know to complete the project. This is a GIANT leap forward in education.