Stories
Human beings are natural storytellers. Stories like Ramayana and greek legends have been passed to us over many generations. All books on presentations also tell us about the power of stories. Stories function as a tool to pass on knowledge in a social context. Their are lot of fairy tales for kids. We are lots of fairy tales for kids in English. Even in Hindi and other regional Indian languages their lots of tales for kids.
Unfortunately when it comes to stories about the curriculum the list is not very big. We have stories about famous scientists and people but their are not many stories for teaching maths and science. Even history which has a lot of stories is taught merely as a collection of facts. We should make effort to make stories around concepts to be covered in the curriculum. Concepts like Pi should be taught using stories. Stories if good are better remembered by kids then facts.
In fact I have started an open education project called ‘Fun2Do Labs’ to make education fun and accessible for all. I would use stories to help students to learn about educational concepts in more fun way.
In fact stories are also a very good base for animations, films and other audio visual content. Once we have open source stories around most of the maths, science and social studies topics we may have lot of animations and other stuff built on top of them and shared on platforms like YouTube. That will make education fun and also accessible to millions of students.
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