Final 5 module topic.
Lifelong learning
What lifelong learning is really like? Why do we study? What for? What is the purpose?
Some of us have answered these questions already - we learn, we study, we revise over and over again to be clever and educated, to be aware of how to solve the problem we have, to become the complete human, and so on. Plenty oceans of knowledge are surrounding us, our choice - to dive into a few (some) of them to compare feelings, to know where and how do we feel ourselves better. People differently make desicions during their lifetime, they want to try themselves everywhere. These are the stories of those, who'd found himself and who still searchs for. All of us are able to get used to any conditions, that's what exactly motivate, lead us to the action.
Salman Khan, a Harward University graduate is studying for a lecture he's going to give, it'll take place on YouTube, it won't last for more than ten minutes, and it will reach a potentioal audience of millions. He records up to eight lectures like this every day.
In 2006, Salman's 13-year-old cousin Nadia was having trouble with Maths, so she asked him if he could tutor her. Then when other relatives and family friends asked him when he could tutor them, too, he didn't want to keep explaining the same things over and over again, so he suggested creating video and putting them on YouTube. To his surprise, his cousin admitted she preffered the virtual Salman to the real thing. Bil Gates, chairman of Microsoft, claims that Khan is his favourite teacher, and uses his videos, which now have about 2.000000 users, with his children. Khan is planning to translate his videos into 10 languages and he is even thinking of opening his own private school. In the meantimek though, it's back to his cupboard to record more videos!
Every night, William Kamhwamba's sisters would huddle around the faint light of a kerosene lamp to read and study in the hope of a better future. That was before their brother, who was only 14 at the time, built windmills that brought electricity to his village of Masitala in Malawi, Africa. William's family survived on just one meal a day, but they didn't have enough miney to afford the $80-a-year tution fees for William's school. Forced to drop out , he refused to give up and carried on his education from textbooks in the small local library Over two months he managed to assemble a 5-metre high windmill that supplied enough power to light four small light bulbs. News of the boy who built windmills spread though blogs and newspaper articles. William is currently studying for a degree in America, but he plans to return home with more ideas to help village. William Kamkwamba might not have the solution for everthing just yet, but he's a shining example of all that can be achieved when just one person dreams of a better world.
What lifelong learning is really like? Why do we study? What for? What is the purpose?
Some of us have answered these questions already - we learn, we study, we revise over and over again to be clever and educated, to be aware of how to solve the problem we have, to become the complete human, and so on. Plenty oceans of knowledge are surrounding us, our choice - to dive into a few (some) of them to compare feelings, to know where and how do we feel ourselves better. People differently make desicions during their lifetime, they want to try themselves everywhere. These are the stories of those, who'd found himself and who still searchs for. All of us are able to get used to any conditions, that's what exactly motivate, lead us to the action.
Salman Khan, a Harward University graduate is studying for a lecture he's going to give, it'll take place on YouTube, it won't last for more than ten minutes, and it will reach a potentioal audience of millions. He records up to eight lectures like this every day.
In 2006, Salman's 13-year-old cousin Nadia was having trouble with Maths, so she asked him if he could tutor her. Then when other relatives and family friends asked him when he could tutor them, too, he didn't want to keep explaining the same things over and over again, so he suggested creating video and putting them on YouTube. To his surprise, his cousin admitted she preffered the virtual Salman to the real thing. Bil Gates, chairman of Microsoft, claims that Khan is his favourite teacher, and uses his videos, which now have about 2.000000 users, with his children. Khan is planning to translate his videos into 10 languages and he is even thinking of opening his own private school. In the meantimek though, it's back to his cupboard to record more videos!
Every night, William Kamhwamba's sisters would huddle around the faint light of a kerosene lamp to read and study in the hope of a better future. That was before their brother, who was only 14 at the time, built windmills that brought electricity to his village of Masitala in Malawi, Africa. William's family survived on just one meal a day, but they didn't have enough miney to afford the $80-a-year tution fees for William's school. Forced to drop out , he refused to give up and carried on his education from textbooks in the small local library Over two months he managed to assemble a 5-metre high windmill that supplied enough power to light four small light bulbs. News of the boy who built windmills spread though blogs and newspaper articles. William is currently studying for a degree in America, but he plans to return home with more ideas to help village. William Kamkwamba might not have the solution for everthing just yet, but he's a shining example of all that can be achieved when just one person dreams of a better world.
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