It's fun to learn about the World War II history on Facebook

Here's our thoughts... how I learned about World War II on Facebook after!

This is the type of methods we'd like to see more often in education. Not only it's funny, it also makes some people want to learn more because they laugh and enjoy it. 

It might seem unusual, when actually it is the main trend: a growing number of people, most of the youth, who learn from YouTube and the internet. They do it because online it's quick, fun and interactive. 

This is for me the perfect example of how education can be taught for near to nothing to tens of millions with tools that already exist. 

Imagine that after this News Feed, there are also more videos about the historical event. A little like russian dolls: they read the news feed because it's funny, short and easy.

They laugh because it's funny and at the end there's another video of 5 minutes that's fun and interesting. There's a quiz they can take about the war, get their results compared to the rest of the country. And then there's a link to learn more so that you can increase your ranking.

We then reward students with the highest ranking by giving them free laptops, ipods, trips to foreign countries, opportunities to attend free training, or other extra-curricular activities. This would give a real incentive for youth to learn, reduce the cost drastically from our tax, freeing incredible resources to provide the healthy environment needed for youth to develop their social skills. 

Mobile operators see 10 times more potential in social networking than in anything else: 800,000 UK mobile subscribers accessed mobile social networks during the first three months of 2008. Facebook leads the pack with 557,000.

The numbers have boomed since then: Twitter has now more than 1 billion tweet a month! Do we not ought to consider using these tools for education?

We can bring youth together through social networks and we know that one of the biggest influence in the teenage is friends and environment outside of the house. Why not using Facebook type website to bring together all students to share their problems at school, best ways to learn, tips, and for teachers to share best course material, teaching tips and creative ideas.

At Seeducation, we want to build a social network online, a "tribe" offline (as Seth Godin calls it) of people who want to learn. 

If you believe that these ideas can be part of the solutions that rebuilds education, please rate this article and comment. Tell me how you think we can make this happen.

I count on your creativity and resourcefulness to help me make a life pilot from this idea.

Thank you. 

Noam

It's fun, and makes us want to learn