How to help your child learn

Not the first time confronted with the fact that the narrow-minded perception of computer technology is inextricably linked with the games. A huge number of people are absolutely sure that home desktops and tablets are primarily designed for games and Only some programmers and mad scientists sometimes pretend that they are doing there is any serious affairs.

And especially it concerns children. If a child is sitting at a computer - he plays a mean other options can not be. Meanwhile, modern computer technology can perfectly serve your children in school. In this article I want to share my personal experience in this area.

My son is engaged in a regular high school with all of the charms of our education. It is tired of all teachers in the Soviet era, terrible books, peeling boards and hopeless conservatism of the educational process. What are the new technologies which the modern theory of how the media? What do you mean, the learning process has remained about the same as a hundred years ago in the parish school.

Of course, such an approach can not inspire our jaded multimedia entertainment of children. Therefore, many, even very interesting topics on history, literature, geography, biology, being voiced monotone voice teacher and visualized a few hazy illustrations in the book, are completely past their consciousness without causing nothing but boredom and yawning.

To solve this problem, I decided to use the popular science film production Discovery, BBC and other well-known channels. In the network there are plenty of them on almost any topic. I'm sure you know very well the quality, effects and scope of such films shooting, so to describe them is not necessary. I can only say that in comparison with a film school textbook produces much greater effect on the pupil, giving no only factual material on the chosen topic, but also a number of additional details that are not found in any school textbook.

In practice it looks as follows. Now with homework son instead of reading a textbook watching one of the movies on the relevant topic. Although it may take much longer (some films are about an hour), it is of much greater interest and desire. And most importantly - there is a huge positive effect - there is interest in the subject and marked progress in their studies.

So, we turn to some technical details.

Where to search for movies?

A huge number of popular science, documentaries, educational films, videos, lesson is in YouTube. There are materials on virtually any subject and at any age, from animated films for primary school professors to lecture to high school students. If you can not find the material, it is necessary to look into the In contact with. Yes, the same terrible "contact" may well be used for useful purposes. Just look for the best material itself that the child looked exactly what you need. Usually it takes no more than 10 minutes. Then another couple of minutes are enough to evaluate the content of the film, so as not to give the child some "secret material", the secret version and unconfirmed scientific hypotheses.

How to watch?

If you, like me, will be used for this tablet on Android, then you can be useful the following programs.

FREEdi YouTube Player

Under this name hides a rather awkward convenient program for playing YouTube videos. this native client service I have very bad to play streaming video in spite of sufficient bandwidth. FREEdi YouTube Player plays any video without stuttering, allowing a smooth transition to the desired fragment, has a convenient interface. The program has a handy search not only for individual videos, but also playlists. With his help, I learned that there are good people who have already formed a playlist, not only for different school subjects and topics, but also on classes.
There is a version for the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad.

VKontakte Music and Video

This program is great for finding films in huge collections of Vkontakte. When you have found the right film, you can immediately start playing by any set your player or download it to your device. To play does not need flash, that can please the owners of some devices. For owners of apple art may comeTo the cinemaBut I have not tested it for obvious reasons.

The result of this judicious use of computer technology and the Internet for education did not wait. Just a couple of months of such training my son started vividly stand out from the crowd of classmates. Peacefully falling asleep on istorichka lesson was sometimes wake up from his answers and unexpected questions. And in the diary were very different assessment. And what you want.