Learn from Home?
It has been around 2 months since schools and universities close due to Covid-19 restrictions. Instead, they must attend an online class provided by their school or teacher, we call it ‘school from home’. ‘School from home’ seems like bigger and relatively a much newer transition than ‘work from home’ for most people.
If you are wondering why did I want to write about this, it because people forget the essence of ‘school’. A school is a place for everyone to get educated, without reducing respect for the function of socialization. For me, educated people do not define by graduating from high school or getting a college degree, but able to acquire general knowledge and prepare themselves for life.
We force ourselves to the routine of learning virtually with our teacher while some of us expected to meet our friends in a real class situation. The first thing we need to do in this situation is to accept the situation. Put in mind that we must stay educated during this pandemic lockdown, so we quickly adapted the situation.
Basically its harder for children compared to a teenager in adapting the situation because children weren’t prepared to be a self-directed learner yet. So parents must accept that children would tend to be more ease during this time. Just let them learn anything they wanted beside school subjects.
But for teenagers & early adults, education is not only acquired from your presence at school, but education happens everywhere. What you need is only a desire, desire to questioning and desire to reasoning. Even though they were simple mindset, that what drives the desire to learn in me.
For me, it felt like a burden at first. I’d rather spend my time in front of my computer to watch my favorite anime rather than spend minutes to learn something I’m not sure whether I’ll use it or not. Back then, it was my senior year when I really feel the benefit of my “home teacher.” I need to create an essay about how Muslims spread in Indonesia for my history subject but, I couldn’t find specific information regarding the issue on the textbooks. That’s when Youtube became my ‘home teacher’.
Youtube, a digital place where people share wide range of videos. Some examples include amateur films, music videos, funny bloopers, etc. Not only for entertainment purposes, but people also use YouTube to post instructional videos, do-it-yourself guides, and educational videos. Youtube fills up our curiosity and we get educated by watching the video.
We all agree that Youtube is a great platform to learn for free. Many channels delivering insightful information and some of them really captivate our desire to learn by simplifying it with great animation. For visual people like me, videos are a great format for learning in instant.
But beyond the thousands of channels and youtube videos, there are some accounts that I really enjoy to watch. They may be a bit subjective, this based on my interest and you might have favorite channels too. But they’re really worth to try.
Here are some of my favorite channels for learning something new every day:
TEDx Talks & TED-Ed
TED which stands for Technology Entertainment and Design has been around for decades. TEDx Talks is one of their programs to spread lessons that worth sharing, it basically short inspiring and, most importantly, entertaining lectures from some of the world’s most inspiring and renowned thought leaders. While TED-Ed is an extension of TED’s mission of spreading great ideas by creating cartoons from curated topics that are both accurate and easy to understand for anyone.
The Futur
The Futur is a channel that provides knowledge for creative entrepreneurs. This channel teaches you about design and business. They also give us technical information and fascinating study case from businesses around creative sector. Go ahead and learn.
Crash Course
Crash Course is another channel that consistently delivers high quality animated videos designed to teach you things you need to know for your life. Crash Course offers wide range collections of videos on a chosen concentration like Philosophy, Science, Economy, World History, and Literature. They provide interesting arguments about theory and encourage the viewer to think about it.
Vox
Vox is a media that candidly shepherd audiences through politics and policy, business and pop culture, food, science, and everything else that matters. Their issues explored what trends going on lately. What I like about this channel, every video provides knowledge through the facts, figures, and numbers that we need to know.
Nacho Average Finds
This channel created as a love letter to sneaker culture by David Mederos & Bryan Mederos. On this channel, you will find topics that focused on sneaker history and all things related to sneakers. Nacho Average Finds might even make you love sneakers and appreciate it more for their historic story.
I can’t wait to back to normal. Hmm, what will be the future of school? Will it be possible to eliminate presence and space? Thank you for reading. I hope you find these suggestions useful. Stay sane & stay safe.
