Education

As the popular American poet Robert Frost has said, education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper. Islamic law gives The Right To Protest Against Tyranny.

User Experience of Education

What is the user experience of education? The student sits in the classroom. The student listens to a podcast on his device while jogging or riding a bicycle. In order to engage the students the learning experience must be interesting and consistent. Every lecture should be so interesting that it would be a pity if it weren't recorded. So it should be recorded. Basic educatipn open too all. Education is not a special interest.

Students get paid for dreaming. School papers should be submitted as blog posts instead of papers because this is the prominent communication method of the contemporary time.

Parents believe opportunities are reletively scarse. As the saying goes, it is either Yale or jail or for their children.There has been a lot of talk about the digital divide, the lack of basic computer literacy in many economically poor places of the world.

Recently I heard from the started of the hole in the wall project, Dr Sugata Mitra on BBC Forum. He had an inspiring story about how children worldwide are able to teach themselves to use a computer. And indeed, I was never taught to use computer, I just found a box and a screen on my table when I was 3. So why shouldn't today's 6 year olds be any different.

Modern parents are outsourcing parental teaching. How many parens walk around withab ipod while walking with child? The baby education market is huge. Any parents wants their child to be the best and succeed. I am not sure what is the user experience of learning and education at a school today. When I finished high school two years ago, almost no-one was using a laptop in class. The same year in university, everybody had one. It was one of the strong reccomendations of the professors. You almost couldn't pass the classes without one.Sex education for todays children is received trough hardcore pornography. I don't know whether that is bad because me myself I thoroughly enjoyed the experience. However, I don't know if this is the experience of everybody. There is a television series called Skins that, in particular in the 3rd seasons, gives an accurate and honest portrayal of what the teenage life is like.

I avoided going to classes from the first grade at school because I was afraid of the other children / I had more interesting things to do. It is not enough to sit the child down in the classroom. To engage him in effortful learning, he must feel that what he can learn there has an importance for his life.When I think about my own University, the obvious question is: What has been invented at Tallinn University? I don't really know. Somehow I hope I will have educational podcasts on the website of my University. And I also hope to find all the lectures given on Youtube and iTunes. So Tallinn University, are you up for it?

Story lifelong learning people in night classesSupporting science education.Every year the publishes a list of the world's top universities. Conincidentaly, these universities make their lectures available free of charge as podcasts. One can listen to or watch the lecture for free. These universities are located in the USA. I have heard more lectures on my iPhone than I've had at my home university. MIT, UCLA.

Universal education. If we compare a lecture versus a radio talk-show, radio shows up as more concise. Radio programs are more selective and organized, admittedly because they have been edited only to bother the listener with what is most important.

In class I constantly want to give feedback about how things are done. It is not enough submit an anonymous evaluation sheet at the end of the course. By then it's too late, the problems have already passed. Of course I've sent e-mails to the administration and we have a student union. But I want more. I want a live conversation about how to make the University better, more efficient, more fun, active and productive. What is needed, is a continuous evaluation of the teaching service / product such as Get Satisfaction is for companies.

There is a story about Prisoners to entrepreneurs. Coldcalling.

Bored student in a classroom. Photo by Benny Lim

Students get paid for dreaming. Why not submit school papers as blog posts as well? This is the prominent communication method of the contemporary time.

Parents believe opportunities are reletively scarse. As the saying goes, it is either "Yale or jail"  for their children.There has been a lot of talk about the digital divide, the lack of basic computer literacy in many economically poor places of the world. When Sugata Mitra started the hole in the wall project a few year back he told his inspiring story on BBC World Service. Children worldwide are able to teach themselves to use a computer without any help. And indeed, from my own experience, I was never taught to use a computer. As my father had a computer business, I access to  a screen on my table when I was three. So why shouldn't today's 6 year olds be any different.

Modern parents are outsourcing parental teaching. How many parens walk around withab ipod while walking with child? The baby education market is huge. Any parents wants their child to be the best and succeed. I am not sure what is the user experience of learning and education at a school today. When I finished high school two years ago, almost no-one was using a laptop in class. The same year in university, everybody had one. It was one of the strong reccomendations of the professors. You almost couldn't pass the classes without one.Sex education for todays children is received trough hardcore pornography. I don't know whether that is bad because me myself I thoroughly enjoyed the experience. However, I don't know if this is the experience of everybody. There is a television series called Skins that, in particular in the 3rd seasons, gives an accurate and honest portrayal of what the teenage life is like.

I avoided going to classes from the first grade at school because I was afraid of the other children / I had more interesting things to do. It is not enough to sit the child down in the classroom. To engage him in effortful learning, he must feel that what he can learn there has an importance for his life.When I think about my own University, the obvious question is: What has been invented at Tallinn University? I don't really know. Somehow I hope I will have educational podcasts on the website of my University. And I also hope to find all the lectures given on Youtube and iTunes. So Tallinn University, are you up for it?

Story lifelong learning people in night classes. Supporting science education.Every year the publishes a list of the world's top universities. Conincidentaly, these universities make their lectures available free of charge as podcasts. One can listen to or watch the lecture for free. These universities are located in the USA. I have heard more lectures on my iPhone than I've had at my home university. MIT, UCLA.

Universal education. If we compare a lecture versus a radio talk-show, radio shows up as more concise. Radio programs are more selective and organized, admittedly because they have been edited only to bother the listener with what is most important.

In class I constantly want to give feedback about how things are done. It is not enough submit an anonymous evaluation sheet at the end of the course. By then it's too late, the problems have already passed. Of course I've sent e-mails to the administration and we have a student union. But I want more. I want a live conversation about how to make the University better, more efficient, more fun, active and productive. What is needed, is a continuous evaluation of the teaching service / product such as Get Satisfaction is for companies.

There is a story about Prisoners to entrepreneurs learning Coldcalling.