This essay intends to be a seed to inspire discussions on the issues and methods of learning in real life, also how web2 can help us. So far, it is by no means a complete list of how to lean in real life.
For a moment, let’s forget about schools. Free your thoughts. Let’s think about [...]
Archive for July, 2006
How to learn in real life
Posted in Elearning, Essay, What is Learning, unschooling on July 23, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Time to unschool
Posted in Elearning, Essay, What is Learning, unschooling on July 20, 2006 | 1 Comment »
Imagine that you can learn finance in one year, achieving better understanding and skills of finance than people going through many years of college to obtain a bachelor or master degree. Imagine you can build up a very good liberal arts background in one or two years, beating most of the students going to top [...]
How can we learn freely? Can we commercialize learning/education?
Posted in Elearning, Essay, What is Learning, unschooling on July 12, 2006 | 3 Comments »
School is not for learning. It is for education, for teaching, which is to make you unable to learn. School is just an institution to enslave people’s minds. School uses tests to screw up certain kinds of people, who are not good at passing tests, make them stay as manual labor, and screw up some [...]
Elearning FAQ (to be continued)
Posted in Elearning, Essay, Random Thoughts, unschooling on July 5, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
What is elearning?
A: So far elearning is mostly used to refer to online courseware, most of which just moved traditional course material to the web. For most of people in the academic field, elearning is just something to fanaticize teaching. So all of their work involves how to teach the course material better. However, I [...]