So well i´m not going to tell you that you're wrong because sometimes it is certainly tedious, but maybe your problem is that you just haven't found yet the right way of learning.
It is also true that we're living in a technological world, but this involves a problem: while the society has change at a staggering pace during the las century, the way of educating people is almost the same; as a student i can tell you that sometimes when you cross the school door it seems like you're traveling in time, it is like if all those technological objets don't exist, you can't use any of them at any time.
And in my opinion this is what we've to change, we've everything for making school a place where kids want to go because they want to learn and not just a boring place where you have to spend six hours of your day five days a week.
And this is what these teachers are trying to do, they are trying to humanize the classrooms by using technology and making the students interact with the teachers and with each other.
It is also true that we're living in a technological world, but this involves a problem: while the society has change at a staggering pace during the las century, the way of educating people is almost the same; as a student i can tell you that sometimes when you cross the school door it seems like you're traveling in time, it is like if all those technological objets don't exist, you can't use any of them at any time.
And in my opinion this is what we've to change, we've everything for making school a place where kids want to go because they want to learn and not just a boring place where you have to spend six hours of your day five days a week.
And this is what these teachers are trying to do, they are trying to humanize the classrooms by using technology and making the students interact with the teachers and with each other.
Walter Lewin: he's a physics teacher of the mit now retired but we can see his lessons on: http://video.mit.edu
Salman Khan: over 4.000.000 students watch his videos
He does not teach only about maths, but also about physics, chemistry, history, and so on...
He's trying to reinvent education and he has created a web page (http://www.khanacademy.org/ ) where you can find all his videos and create and account where you'll be able to see your progress, the videos you've watched, the ones that they recommend you...
This is one of the TED talks where you can understand all the history of the universe from his beginning until now a day in 17 minutes
You can find more of this talks on: http://www.ted.com/
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