Comments on: Free Educational Content http://www.deeshaa.org/2008/08/23/free-educational-content/ Fri, 19 Mar 2010 05:14:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Bringing revolution in education (or the way of learning!) at VentureWoods - India's leading venture capital community http://www.deeshaa.org/2008/08/23/free-educational-content/comment-page-1/#comment-128694 Bringing revolution in education (or the way of learning!) at VentureWoods - India's leading venture capital community Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:37:51 +0000 http://www.deeshaa.org/2008/08/23/free-educational-content/#comment-128694 [...] Atanu has written a detailed post on this topic. Let me reemphasize it. Digital world is full of information (currently it is in the magnitude of petabytes) and it is much much more than any individual can consume. This means, child need not learn whole text-books that are available to him rather he should learn few concepts that are interesting to him. In particular the child must learn how to construct such concepts on his own. Here, technology/schools/parents/friends/etc may help in filtering the petabytes of information and provide qualitative information which suits his requirements. In order to utilize this aid effectively, at the fundamental outset, he must be skilled in “reading, writing, logic or arithmetic and ‘how to learn’”. [...] [...] Atanu has written a detailed post on this topic. Let me reemphasize it. Digital world is full of information (currently it is in the magnitude of petabytes) and it is much much more than any individual can consume. This means, child need not learn whole text-books that are available to him rather he should learn few concepts that are interesting to him. In particular the child must learn how to construct such concepts on his own. Here, technology/schools/parents/friends/etc may help in filtering the petabytes of information and provide qualitative information which suits his requirements. In order to utilize this aid effectively, at the fundamental outset, he must be skilled in “reading, writing, logic or arithmetic and ‘how to learn’”. [...]

]]> By: Aishwarya http://www.deeshaa.org/2008/08/23/free-educational-content/comment-page-1/#comment-128674 Aishwarya Sun, 24 Aug 2008 19:57:09 +0000 http://www.deeshaa.org/2008/08/23/free-educational-content/#comment-128674 Atanu, This post was such a stark reminder The Third Wave by Alvin Toffler. You raise an excellent point about education and Information overload. As I read through it; I just had one question. What about Quality Control? Not policing, but quality control to make sure we are not educating a generation on Wikipedia. And then you had a section "Filter will be king" :). You have all the broad ideas for the future of education covered. I also have a particular disdain of everyone should learn everything till Class X rule. I wish I was born at a time when education was customizable. Atanu,
This post was such a stark reminder The Third Wave by Alvin Toffler. You raise an excellent point about education and Information overload. As I read through it; I just had one question. What about Quality Control? Not policing, but quality control to make sure we are not educating a generation on Wikipedia. And then you had a section “Filter will be king” :) . You have all the broad ideas for the future of education covered.

I also have a particular disdain of everyone should learn everything till Class X rule. I wish I was born at a time when education was customizable.

]]> By: idlinginc http://www.deeshaa.org/2008/08/23/free-educational-content/comment-page-1/#comment-128669 idlinginc Sun, 24 Aug 2008 13:02:35 +0000 http://www.deeshaa.org/2008/08/23/free-educational-content/#comment-128669 Atanu, Given that information is infinite and searchable, the content problem is solved, if not right now, in the near future. By the time the world realizes and restructures itself to this fact, free content would be the best content available, period. There are a few sites specialized in filtering content (Eg: http://www.lecturefox.com/), and these would be available for free as well. The problem then becomes - how to teach people to think. SV put it aptly ... "The present system of education is all wrong. The mind is crammed with facts before it knows how to think. " Atanu,

Given that information is infinite and searchable, the content problem is solved, if not right now, in the near future. By the time the world realizes and restructures itself to this fact, free content would be the best content available, period. There are a few sites specialized in filtering content (Eg: http://www.lecturefox.com/), and these would be available for free as well.

The problem then becomes – how to teach people to think. SV put it aptly …

“The present system of education is all wrong. The mind is crammed with facts before it knows how to think. “

]]> By: baransam http://www.deeshaa.org/2008/08/23/free-educational-content/comment-page-1/#comment-128668 baransam Sun, 24 Aug 2008 10:14:06 +0000 http://www.deeshaa.org/2008/08/23/free-educational-content/#comment-128668 Thanks Atanu for a wonderful reading experience. If you continue writing so, you run the risk of starting a cult-following. May be you already have. Thanks Atanu for a wonderful reading experience. If you continue writing so, you run the risk of starting a cult-following. May be you already have.

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