Google and Schools

Why school sucks?

Why kids have so much fun doing very tiresome activities but are bored to death at school?

Exploiting our natural intellectual talent is one of the most challenging activities in our life.
When we realize to have learned something new we feel more alive and strongly motivated.

And again ... ..
Why students are not allowed to copy? In real life it is the first thing to do, being the first step for innovation and intellectual evolution.

Why all school information is so stiff, crystallized, stolen of all the emotions that these strong life experiences aroused?

Why students should be ashamed when don't understand something, to the point that it is more fashionable to flaunt indifference and disinterest?

Young people that enjoy studying and playing with their minds are, most of the times, treated as careerists with a servile behavior with teachers.

It is totally wrong.

You would say ... what has to do all this with Google?

Internet and Google may represent powerful tools of freedom and individual expression.
They can help make learning a game, a creative fun.

Take for example the books.
Study of monolithic textbooks no longer makes any sense: besides all, are unnecessarily expensive.

I remember sad images of experiments in physics ... All that is now outdated, since we can access videos and simulations.

Why don't let and help students compose themselves virtual books?
Picking up material on the Internet (yes, copying) and working together with other people, of any age..capable of evolving, generation by generation.

Moreover: it is well known that the best way to learn is to teach.
Isn't it better to prepare and give lessons than to be interviewed?
And getting rated and  supported by schoolmates, too.


In other words, the Internet and Google (Apps, Google +) can be tools by which students can express their ideas and personalities. Together, learning how to collaborate.
Despite the rules, often inadequate, of the "adult world".  

This is the first in a series of articles in which, starting from the opinions and behaviour of young students, ideas and techniques will be collected, proposed and explained.

Each article will cover a subject (history, literature, other arts, mathematics, natural sciences, geography, ancient/modern foreign languages...), trying to highlight the interdisciplinary and social aspects.

Any ideas, suggestions and contributions are welcome.

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