Who were we without e-learning?
Would Abraham Lincoln, Madame Curie, Gandhi, Helen Keller, Eleanor Roosevelt or Einstein have been more brilliant if they were e-learners? Was there something in their education that made them great?
As educators and parents invest in e-learning for children, we should not forget what worked for children before the technological age. While we look forward, we must remember the great people who have lived and learned in the past. How did they learn? How can we apply it to learners in a technological world?
E-learning outside of the void
One archived article, Early Childhood: Where Learning Begins – June 1999 suggests that Mathematics helps children make sense of the world and find meaning in the physical world. Learners need to make connections and relate what they learn to what they experience. Otherwise, learning loses meaning.
When choosing an e-learning program, remember that learning does not happen in a void. The danger in e-learning is that children learn in a vacuum when they don’t connect what they study to their world.
Tried and true e-learning methodology
In a SciMath123 module, students do everything that primary school students should do. They review concepts with video and mind maps, interact with it in the Try section, and receive instant feedback. They play, make choices about their learning, and move at their own pace. These are tried and true methods of teaching students.
All sales pitches aside, can expect your child to learn something exclusively from one e-learning program? Absolutely not! Whether you are using SciMath123 or any other program, if children do not relate what they learn to their world, they are absorbing information in a void. It ‘s hard not to connect anything we learn to something, but it is easy for a child to get absorbed in the bells and whistles of an e-learning program and miss key learning points of a lesson.
A boon to education
So use SciMath123 or any other e-learning program that claims that your child will build a proper foundation in Mathematics and Science. But realize that is not enough. Primary students need a sound basis for learning that comes from teachers, the classroom, conversations, and the games they play. It is all of these components that will help them make sense of their world.
E-learning is a boon to education, but don’t forget the great people who influenced the world without it.