{"id":6664,"date":"2013-02-25T15:42:27","date_gmt":"2013-02-25T07:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/blog\/?p=6664"},"modified":"2015-02-18T09:41:35","modified_gmt":"2015-02-18T09:41:35","slug":"make-learning-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/2013\/02\/25\/make-learning-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Revolutionize Education, make learning fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/embed.ted.com\/talks\/tyler_dewitt_hey_science_teachers_make_it_fun.html\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been watching more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\">TED Talks<\/a> recently- and I&#8217;ve stumbled upon a few gems. I&#8217;ve decided I&#8217;m going to write about my favourite ones and make a list of recommendations so you don&#8217;t have to trawl through all of them yourself.<\/p>\n<p>The guy in the above video is a science teacher who demonstrates how our existing systems of education are\u00a0<strong>NOT user-oriented<\/strong>. This has been a sore point for me for a long time- video games are forced to delight the user and make them happy, which is why people are so addicted to World of Warcraft and Candy Crush Saga. There&#8217;s merciless competition, and if you&#8217;re not constantly refining your game, you&#8217;re going to be left behind.<\/p>\n<p>Well, schools have competition now when it comes to learning. Kids can learn from YouTube and other video-sharing resources. I used YouTube extensively myself when I was studying for my A Levels as a private candidate and it&#8217;s a total game-changer.<\/p>\n<p>Instutitionalized academia is going to have to adapt and up its game. This excites me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been watching more TED Talks recently- and I&#8217;ve stumbled upon a few gems. I&#8217;ve decided I&#8217;m going to write about my favourite ones and make a list of recommendations so you don&#8217;t have to trawl through all of them yourself. The guy in the above video is a science&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[591],"tags":[142,864],"class_list":["post-6664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-education","tag-ted"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5gxNz-1Ju","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9877,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6664\/revisions\/9877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}