Difference between revisions of "Education/Compiling the best educational material"
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| − | + | Helping to gather material from people who are exceptional at explaining concepts clearly and interestingly should be a priority. Examples of inspirational explainers might be [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_sagan Carl Sagan] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Attenborough David Attenborough], although the majority of them will not necessarily be well known. | |
| − | + | It cannot be expected, at least initially, for these people to spontaneously contribute and submit their work to a freely available educational repository, there needs to be a concerted effort to find these people and help them record their material. | |
| − | Other people have a gift for writing or making diagrams, images, animations or games in ways that make it as easy as possible to understand the concept in question. | + | Other people have a gift for writing or making diagrams, images, animations or interactive games in ways that make it as easy as possible to understand the concept in question. Again these talented people should be sought out and encouraged to contribute their knowledge to [[open content]] educational projects so it can be built upon and offered freely to anyone who wishes to use it. |
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| + | Another way to get good material to let people freely to submit material and the promising parts can be incrementally improved by other editors and contributors until it reaches a high standard as in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki wiki] process. This good material with the help of ratings and recommendations will bubble up to the top. | ||
Teachers if they wish could then use this material where appropriate and use their own skills to check it has been understood and elaborate further where necessary. | Teachers if they wish could then use this material where appropriate and use their own skills to check it has been understood and elaborate further where necessary. | ||
Revision as of 02:09, 19 November 2006
Helping to gather material from people who are exceptional at explaining concepts clearly and interestingly should be a priority. Examples of inspirational explainers might be Carl Sagan and David Attenborough, although the majority of them will not necessarily be well known.
It cannot be expected, at least initially, for these people to spontaneously contribute and submit their work to a freely available educational repository, there needs to be a concerted effort to find these people and help them record their material.
Other people have a gift for writing or making diagrams, images, animations or interactive games in ways that make it as easy as possible to understand the concept in question. Again these talented people should be sought out and encouraged to contribute their knowledge to open content educational projects so it can be built upon and offered freely to anyone who wishes to use it.
Another way to get good material to let people freely to submit material and the promising parts can be incrementally improved by other editors and contributors until it reaches a high standard as in the wiki process. This good material with the help of ratings and recommendations will bubble up to the top.
Teachers if they wish could then use this material where appropriate and use their own skills to check it has been understood and elaborate further where necessary.
