HIGHLY COMPRESSED
POWER-PAK EDUCATION-QUIK
TEACHING AIDS
by Karl Roebling
| HOW DO PEOPLE LEARN TODAY? | ||||
| The TV mode. | ||||
| People learn today in the TV mode - - music, lights, action, color, design, stars, experts, picture-in-picture, voices, celebrities, computer animation, crawlers, a great variety of sets, travel backgrounds, action - - exciting, attention grabbing and holding. And Power-Pak intensifies the concepts. |
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| TV uses advanced "stagecraft." | ||||
| Excitement is important in this age. It "turns on" minds. It "speaks to" minds in the language, so to speak, of this communication era. |
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| The product must compete successfully for ATTENTION head-on with distractions of any type. |
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| (I have high regard for quality TV.) | ||||
| People today have defensive screens as never before. | ||||
| Mental defenses are in place today against bombardment by so much information from so many sources. |
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| People seldom take much in on the first presentation. | ||||
| This greatly hampers schools. | ||||
| Therefore, education today requires a quick but comprehensive PREVIEW which is also easily REVIEWABLE in order to work. |
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| Then, after minds are open, and barriers are dropped, teaching is more quickly and easily accepted. |
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| The advanced new Education-Quik concept | ||||
| Power-Pak Education brings highly-compressed but complete "course in your pocket" teaching aids enabling a comprehensive and detailed overview of a subject BEFORE and DURING the course. |
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| The presentations are not designed to be absorbed the first time, because essentially the whole course is there in sort of "flash" form. |
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| Students can "check out" the course material quickly, realize they want it, drop barriers, then pay close and deep attention. |
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| They can review any time, identify weak spots, help get ready for tests |
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| These are NOT REPLACEMENTS for the school's or the teacher's particular curriculum. Much curriculum is fairly universal (as are many other teaching aids including internet information, but schools of course must still focus on what they want). |
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| The Power-Pak can't replace classroom teaching, the teacher's guidance, lab work, field work - - but is an AID. |
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| Comprehensive is the word. | ||||
| Most courses K through 12 or even community college 14 can be compressed into 15-minute but not over 30-minute comprehensive capsules if done as suggested herein—with Bonus references available from the menu for those wanting to go deeper and wider. |
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| A Charlemagne example | ||||
| A five-hour video of Charlemagne in my possession can be put into 15 minutes of Power-Pak without leaving out anything of importance. Other refrences would be in the click-on Bonus Room. |
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| One can't preview or review five hours - - but one can certainly use the information-packed short, blazing, presentation. |
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| In the Power-Pak would be the world significance of the subject, then the period, people and events secular and religious, politics, armies, terrain over years, costumes, weapons, castles, cities, fortifications, religions, marriages, involvement of the Catholic Church, types of enemies and how they lived and fought, and on and on - - with music, stars, strong images, sets and travel backgrounds. Pictures-in-pictures would present the costumes, etc., also the changing maps. Dates would flash. Crawlers would emphasize. Bottom strips as on news shows or sport shows updating viewers would fill in more. |
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| Students could watch Power-Paks in libraries, or take them out, or rent or buy them and companion media for the same or related courses. And the information could also be available on the web. |
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| Useful | ||||
| Power-Pak Education teaching aids will shorten the time needed for course teaching in public, private, charter, religious, homeschooling and tutoring venues - - and will help dropouts and adults outside of schools. |
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| Teachers can more easily individualize | ||||
| Advanced students can break out from the boredom of being stuck back with the rest of the pack, get on a "faster track," also look at future courses, be able to plan. |
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| Career paths can be more easily illuminated. | ||||
| Poorer students can be energized, higher education demystified. If behind, they can catch up more easily. |
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| Parents can review materials and be
of more assistance at home. |
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| Dropouts for any reasons - - boredom, to support families, unfortunate mistakes and choices of what to do - - can quickly reattach to the learning pipelines. |
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| Adults can fill in missing areas, and also move forward. |
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| Students can look at next year's courses. | ||||
| Tutoring and catch-up can be greatly aided. | ||||
| Homeschooling can be aided. | ||||
| Repetition is one essential today. | ||||
| Repetition is the ESSENTIAL NEW MAJOR FACTOR in the transfer of information today (due to television's incessant repetition). |
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| It's said the public pays little or no attention to - - for instance - - a TV commercial until the fifth or sixth appearance. Barriers are up. |
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| In schools, students' minds are unconsciously (or even consciously) blocking, and asking, Do I want to let this in? Has it value? Will I ever use it? Do I want to make room for it? |
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| Shields, screens and blocks can be largely removed by making Power-Pak comprehensive education materials available for PREVIEW. |
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| Digests lose much of the information. | ||||
| The "sound bite" (or headline also) is far too condensed, leaves out far too much. The same applies to most news stories |
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| Worthy outlines can be very useful, but by nature, leave out much. |
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| Full-length aids are worthy, but take too long. | ||||
| Full-length teaching aids that take hours, are too time-consuming for PREVIEW or REVIEW. |
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| We're in an era of short attention spans. | ||||
| Television transfers most information today, and its quick-cutting in shows, commercials and news has created short attention spans. |
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| And TV creates expectations that the information will be repeated often. |
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| "Short attention spans" make traditional teaching difficult. Still, traditional teaching (modernized of course), laboratory work, guidance, career assistance are necessary. |
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INFORMATION FROM 100 SOURCES - - AND UNEVEN STUDENT LEARNING LEVELS |
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| Some students come from families with college educated parents, even parents who might be teachers. They might have had travel opportunities, been to famous museums here and abroad, viewed great architecture. Some have visited great aircraft factories or huge shipyards. Some have mind-opening and broadening books and magazines at their houses plus of course the internet. |
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| On the other hand, some students have never been far from their neighborhoods, and have parents who didn't graduate from high school. Some parents don't care whether or not their children get an education. |
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| And yet, such wide differences in knowledge and motivations can be found mixed into a single large classroom. |
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| The better-equipped student is bored, already knows half the material, wants to move at a much faster pace. On the other hand, the student who knows little may need special help |
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| Teachers have done an amazing job with the diverse playing field. |
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| Power-Pak materials can help the teacher manage the different groups and give individual attention. |
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| Power-Pak materials will show where the
subject matter fits into present and future, and how the knowledge relates to the student. |
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Once, one had to go to a school or college to obtain information.
Today, a slum kid can get both inspiration |
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| WHO CAN BRING POWER-PAK EDUCATION-QUIK TO PASS? |
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| The Gates Foundation would be perfect for this. The people there are already well into worldwide better education programs, understand the need and the problems. |
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| Many TV production studios can produce stunning work. |
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| Interested teachers can be hired to focus courses into the compressed but comprehensive exciting short presentation format. |
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