Nokia has launched a contest asking for people’s best ideas on how to better educate the world. They pick weekly winners and the final best idea will be designed into a Nokia phone application providing education to all. You can learn more at www.ideasproject.com.
It is interesting to note that one of the winning ideas promises to make home education more accessible and available to parents all over the world.
The preschool program would provide entire curricula via the phone. Children would play and learn games teaching topics such as shapes, colors, etc. They would play these games repeatedly on the Nokia phone. The idea is to provide repetition and help learning that way. This design could potentially be amended for higher grades as well.
I am excited that Nokia has chosen an application that would centralize home schooling in the dialogue on education. This says a lot; that the powers that be are paying attention to this movement, although at times silent. It also says that a viable response to the global education problem is not more schools, but more empowered parents.
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