It is therefore an excellent device to acquire knowledge from everybody.
Reading is not optional.
Food is the best way to teach history and geography and most everything else.
Creating a clear and engaging video explanation of a complex concept is a great way to demonstrate mastery and to help others understand and love the subject, too.
When I talk to film students, I always say, 'Buy the DVDs and listen to the commentaries, look at the making of, look at the behind-the-scenes,' because that's such a great learning tool.
The Internet is an interesting tool to use to reach people with things that you might call 'Disney learning,'
A toy is seen both as a bauble and as an intellectual machine.
Making mental connections is our most crucial learning tool, the essence of human intelligence; to forge links; to go beyond the given; to see patterns, relationships, context.
My favourite poem is the one that starts 'Thirty days hath September' because it actually tells you something.
Comics are such a powerful educational tool. Simply put, there are certain kinds of information that are best communicated through sequential visuals.
Readers have told me that their children have learned to read after years of struggle after starting to read Garfield's comic strip and many people who have moved to the United States have said that they, too, learned English by reading Garfield.
I looked around the iTunes store and came across Dr. Moku's Hiragana Mnemonics. Thirty minutes later I had memorized all 46 hiragana. Now my 9-year-old is learning them, and having a lot of fun.
I think jazz is a wonderful learning tool.
History's a resource.
Writing, for me, is an inherent part of understanding the material on a deeper level.
We all know the old expression, "I'll work my thoughts out on paper." There's something about the pen that focuses the brain in a way that nothing else does. That is why we must have more writing in the schools, more writing in all subjects, not just in English classes.
I love when people write about something, I learn what I'm doing through the eyes of a good critic, positive or negative. It's still a learning experience.
A reader ought to be able to hold it and become familiar with its organized contents and make it a mind's manageable companion.
I always think that art is one of the most wonderful exciting curious ways to learn. I have no worries or apologies about art being used as a teaching medium.
I still have flash cards from when I was drawing plays when I was 10 years old.
I have always got my computer or phone nearby so that I can find out extra details about a certain subject.
It is a fantastic initiative by the ministry to develop Aakash Tablet, a mobile device that can be utilised by students anywhere. It was successfully tried out. The second and third versions have come out and the fourth version is on the anvil.
