I wondered about this question for awhile and I think it'd be the best idea for learning. Many African countries can't support minors and even adult schoolers to go to the post secondary school or benefit from a respectable education like here in the United States. I know it's really hard for regions to hire teachers, foreign or local, to teach kids. And I know the struggle that these African kids have to pay monetarily to go to school, likewise goes for kids in the Philippines and Mexico. I do know however that the internet is becoming a sensational degree for most countries in Africa. With the internet as accessible as it can be, can Open Source Learning be a part of the those schools?
It also doesn't have to deal with schools because of it's limitations and validity to teach in such a way. If proper education is not served to all, since education is not free there --- we take it for granted here than ever and I am ashamed at how we don't take advantage of it --- kids must endure certain conditions. Money is a problem, internet may be a problem, staying away from the negative influences, and how far can the length of availability it can be are factors that don't worry us, but those who experience this everyday in African countries. Notably, Open Source Learning primarily involves the internet and African students may share what they learned through it. As you look into Open Source Learning, you can either use it for putting homework assignments, writing purposeful topics, commentating on today's issues, and/or attributing personal experiences to draw people of the same outcome. If it were any easier, it could have affected Mr. William Kamkawamba to connect with TED a lot more faster when he was The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind. Young adolescents have talents and intelligence and all they need their whole life are resources. It's like saving students from being ignorant on the basis that an education is not provided. I feel like this is the only best alternative for researching, relearning, restudying, and redefining how to live more so originally.
Connectivity is super important also because if teachers are not present at schools, kids can reach out for a short duration of video calls of educators from the other side of the world. It also doesn't have to be an educator from the US, there are also potential advocates for OPSL in the UK and elsewhere that I can't name now because its a rather new concept to the traditional classroom setting. I mean if you aren't learning then, why not learn now. It's probably best to post an article or two or more of the world news, BBC news if so, to adolescents. Getting more people involved in reading a piece of literature means that these kids in Africa can develop their own themes and establish their own authority. Students here establish our own authority and override the system with our genuine perception and intuition. Why not share it with the world around us? Why not break those traditional centuries year old classroom settings with new ones? We shouldn't call in Western teaching anymore and offend people with the idea of "Western" and input the name "Universal" teaching.
I want to give students the opportunity to become one, to become themselves and not a student commanded by stringent education systems. The public domain envisions students with a dream to become something then, but why not now? Why not be a hero now of dreams, a conqueror of dreams who will know who's boss. I promote dreams and goals to be true thing wherever students might be in the world. If possible in anytime of my life, I want to build a school in a region in Africa and spread the internet love that adolescents desire to network with and build on.
By the way, sharing ideas with one another is a fundamental success on both sides of the Earth.
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